Preparations committee worked on 2021 spending today, earlier they debated interior and Environmental Department spending which included several amendments, your congresswoman chairs the committee. Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. And before we begin, they require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. Been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, it borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee f
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Calling the president the dword. Whether you think congress is beheading well or badly, whether its popular unpopular, if you want a dictator you subvert the ability of Congress Stalled executive in check. What is central here, is do we want to dictator . No matter how popular he may be, no matter how good or bad his policies may be, no president is supposed to be a dictator in the united states. Kennedy a dictator . I just met her. We expecting a different dword . You cant expect dictator without it. Ranking doug collins is said theyre acting like a bunch of dimwits. We dont have fairness in this committee, how can they stand up and say of the two weakest articles of impeachment in the history of this country. Honestly, with a straight face how can you look at the American People and say we did good. No, you didnt, you stained this body. Youve taken this committee and made it a rubberstamp. Kennedy rubberstamp in rubbers ticked chicken. Republican matt gates, they babbled out about ev
Applause thank you. Its really an honor and a privilege to be here. I was asked to say a few words to introduce the next panel. I would start by saying something that we probably know. The court is a fairly powerful institution. It was not always so, one of the signs of how powerful it is is that you do see, in any president ial election, people say it matters who you vote for because they will pick the next Supreme Court justices. If you think about why that really is, the Court Decides about 80 cases a year. About 75 of them need to be decided but thats not the reason the court is powerful and not the reason people say that about who you should vote for for the president ial election. There is typically five or six cases in any term which is why we care about the court. Those are the cases that have truly Significant Impact on our politics, society, and government. Part of the reason that makes them so important is that the law runs out before you get to the decision. So how do we ju