This is titled congress and the frank bringing congressional mail standard into the 21st century. I recognize myself to give an opening statement. Happy halloween, everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero congressman, able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing Franken Stein how the houses ghoulish mailing standard have haunted members for decades, but i suppose we should go with the official unspooky title for the record. Like most of the issues that fall into this committees mandate, in the work of the House Commission on congressional mailing standard, its very inside baseball. To most people frank is a name or a hot dog or, but the reality is for members of congress, the congressional frank is actually fundamental to how we communicate with our constituents and every time we respond to constituent requests or send news heat e letters or upcoming town halls, we use the frank. Its no surprise with Medi
Is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan is the unfiltered view of government. Next a look at the congressional mailing rules during a hearing of the House Modernization Committee and experts will talk about how social media is going to affect the way congresspeople communicate with their constituents. This is late yesterday and is about an hour. All right. The meeting is coming to order and without notice the chair is allowed to call this meeting to a conclusion at any time. I now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Happy halloween, everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned super hero congress man and able to fly across the country in six hours on alaskan airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankingstein, and how the houses ghoul ishmaeling standards have haunted the members for decades, but i suppose the unspooky title for record, and like most of issues that fall into this committees mandating and the work o
The ability of congress to regulate the executive branch. This is one hour and 25 minutes. Hello, everyone. Panele to the 2019 apsa on prompt, constitutional crisis, and american democracy. Have distinguished panel here for you and we will hear from them individually. We will talk amongst ourselves briefly and then we will take some questions from the large and growing audience. Let me just quickly introduce the panel. Represent and reflect a diverse expertise in different points of view. Professor atwho is Cornell Law School visiting this year at georgetown. Matt glassman is senior fellow at the Governor Institute at georgetown, formerly at the Congressional Research service. Brick is the chancellors professor at uc irvine. Henry olson is a fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center and a columnist with the Washington Post. Ilya and victoria nurse is a woodworth professor of law at georgetown. In the interest of saving time and making sure that we can hear from all of these disting
That because of our strength, the power of our banks, all we americans have to do if Congress Rejects this plan is return to the bargaining table, puff out our chests and demand a better deal. Ive heard one critic say he would use sanctions to give iran a choice between having an economy or having a nuclear program. Well, folks, thats a very punchy sound bite, but it has no basis in reality. As dick said, i was chair of the Foreign Relations committee when our party came across to enact round after round of economic sanctions against iran. Remember, even the toughest restrictions didnt stop Irans Nuclear program from speeding ahead. From a couple of hundred centrifuges to 5,000 to 19,000. Weve already been there. If this agreement is voted down, those who vote no will not be able to tell you how many centrifuges iran will have next year or the year after. If its approved, we will be able to tell you exactly what the limits of irans program will be. The fact is that it wasnt either sanc
Interviewing senator schumer tonight. Because if you couldnt do it tonight, and i had to do the schumer interview, it would have been so short. It would have been me saying, well, i get it. I see why you did what you did. And that would be it. Because ive been in that room in the Majority Leaders Office in the senate in the middle of the night trying to figure out these strategies. And i know there is no good choice. And when i see the not good choice that the leader picks, its usually kind of a tossup, 5050, one way or the other. So i really dont have any questions for senator schumer. But its fascinating to see him responding to all of that doubt out there. Yeah. Exactly. And all that negative fire he has been taking from his own side. And to see him making the case, listen we are better off than we were. Nobody can tell. It doesnt look like that. But i swear there was rhyme behind this reason. He has a case to make against a Democratic Base and a lot of liberal activist groups in pa