Investigative report on u. S. Disastere joins us to discuss a report on u. S. Disaster response. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host it is tuesday, september 3, and this is washington journal. The house and senate in for pro forma sessions. They will likely face new requests for more disaster aid money in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. As we begin the program, we americans to ask are have we become too reliant on government assistance during and after disasters . Andou live in the Eastern Central time zones, that number is 2027488000. Mountain and pacific, that line, 2027488001. If you live in a disaster prone area, particularly if you are anticipating Hurricane Dorian, that line, 2027488002. Also looking for your posts on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan and your cspanwj. Well at we will talk to florida congressman on the coast and fema. The front page reporting of usa today on the hurricane, bahamas b
The hearing will come to order. Director wray, appreciate you coming over. Try to get you out of here by 1 00. You have an agency to run. Well do seven minute rounds. If theres cleanup, well try to accommodate. Briefly, the oversight hearing comes at an important time. Even though theres no evidence the russians changed the tally of the 2016 election, i think they exceeded their wildest expectations in terms of interfering with the 2016 election. I think all of us are interested in what to do to make sure it doesnt happen in 2020. I am very interested in what china is doing, section 2015 authorities are about to expire. I want to hear from the director what that means to the country. We have a fisa warrant investigation coming soon, a problem with media leaks at the fbi. Having said all that, it has been a difficult time for the fbi. Lets not let a few bad actors taint a great organization. Before we start, we appreciate what you do. Without their service, this country would be a dange
Their Second Amendment rights if they have different rules and regulations. Conceal carry reciprocity act ebb sures that Second Amendment rights do not end when they cross state lines. The fact show that citizens who carry conceal handgun are not only better prepared to act in selfdefense, but also in defense of others. Legislation under consideration today also includes the fix nix act, a bipartisan bill to ensure that federal and state authorities comply with existing law and support records that the National Instant criminal background checks system. Legislation penalizes agencies that fail to report relevant criminal records through the fbi and incentivizes states to improve their reporting and federal funding to make sure Domestic Violence records are actually reported through the federal bureau of investigation. The bill contains a study on bump stocks that requires the bureau of justice to report with congress within 180 days on the number of times a bump stock has been used in
Nothing attached to it, except funding government through the 22nd, they are meeting with speaker ryan in the next hour that second ter meet nothing two days with speaker ryan, Freedom Caucus a decision come to about whether to support this, this is important because if this group of conservatives get onboard with the plan, speaker ryan has to go to to pass this to pass this spending bill. Really things are on the wire, we have the house really needs to pass this bill in the next 48 hours or so to get to the Senate Passage vote,iday so were Holding Tight trying to see what the Freedom Caucus will do. De to host what are concerns of the Freedom Caucus and you have any of the vote ow count at this point . Are they leaning one way or the other . They started whipping the vote count clean cr earlier this had a lot of undecided, the count wasnt looking good, to postpone a d meeting that would have set up the vote on this. Afternoon. Happen this we are hoping to get Freedom Caucus says they
Members today will before they get to that debate we expect Texas Democrat al green says hell submit articles of impeachment against President Trump. The house may have a vote related to that issue or go on to the gun bill. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, four conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving us another day. We thank you on this day for the example of st. Nicholas, who fed the hungry, brought hope to the imprisoned, gave comfort to the lost and taught the truth to all. May all who work here in the peoples house strive to imitate him by putting you first in all we do. Give us the courage, love, and strength of st. Nicholas so that, like him, we may serve you through our service to all our brothers and sisters. May all that we do be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings a