Constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work in the areas of voting rei rights and election law a
House budget committee, discusses federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. And at 9 30, emily martin of the National Womens law discusses efforts to close the gender pay gap. Host political reporting that House Speaker nancy pelosi will meet with Steven Mnuchin to discuss finding ways to avoid budget cuts and raise the debt limit as congress possibly faces another federal shutdown later this year if these issues are not resolved. This is the washington journal for july 10. Part of his political many credit him for the rise of and airdparty system recent poll showed many respondents say the current twoparty system is broken. That is what we want to get your sense of in our first hour of the washington journal. When it comes to the twoparty system, do you think it is broken . Call us and tell us why. If you consider yourself a political independent, 2027488000 is the number to call and everyone else can call at 2027488001. You can post your thoughts on twitter a
Sen. Collins the hearing will come to order. Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is always a privilege to work with jd rs families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean of New Hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have votes beginning at 11 00 , and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live with type i diabet
Governmen government. Michael mcauliff congressional reporter for the New York Daily News the house is set to take up the 9 11 Victims Compensation fund. Whats the purpose of this fund and when did it start and what would the bill do . Well, the purpose of the fund is to compensate people who are ill or who have died and their families for economic losses and for pain and suffering. It was originally started, you know, right after 9 11 and it lasted for a couple years and then it lapsed because they were really focused on, you know, folks who died in that terrible attack, but then it got resta restarted again in a legislation that passed in 2010 and it lat lapsed again after five years and it got renewed one more time in 2015, but the demand for it has really climbed, so its running out of money a long time before it expires. How much might the bill cost . Well, the Congressional Budget Office put out a score this morning and they put ten years at 10. 2 billion, as you know that when y
Ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, Human Services and education. He is here to talk about the debate over federal spending and efforts to avoid another Government Shutdown. Off. M going to step ,hat is one small step for man one giant leap for mankind. Host we are just a little over a week away from marking the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11th moon landing. According to a cspan poll, only 8 of americans think we should return to the lunar surface. We are going to dig deeper into the survey this morning on the washington journal, while we also hear from you about your priorities in space. If you live in the eastern, central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain, pacific, 2027488001. You can go to twitter at cspanwj and post comments there or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Joining us for the conversation the morning is cliff young, president for ipsos. Overall, support nasa but not a return to the moon. Lets take the first part. Poll