Republicans hes cautioned against beach meant and of course at the heart of all this youre recall is the democrats that the case for the democrats is the allegation that president try to leverage a white house meeting and military aid which was sought by ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president vladimir selenski to nongenetic ations a former Vice President joe biden any son hunter by the so happening right now in the House Judiciary Committee 45 minute question period for the republicans and the republicans so far interesting only focusing on their witness Jonathan Turley professor of law Washington University lets continue to listen you have to understand the most the senators when when it was said. They jumped into their political graves it was true most of their political careers ended they knew they would and because of the animosity of the period triangle said the following once this set the example of an peaching a president for what when the excitement of the hour shall have
Opposition within both parties to the controversial program. Today, the house of representatives will meet with the aim of voting on several foreign aid bills and legislation that could potentially ban tiktok in the u. S. Those votes prompting\in the Republican Party with several members promising to take steps to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. The south the house is scheduled to come in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. We want to hear your top news story of the week. Republicans can call in at 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independents at 202 7488001. If you would like to text, you can text that 202 7488003. The foreign aid bills hitting the headlines and front pages of many of the newspapers incding the wall street journal, which has the headline aid package passes. Democrats clear a key hurdle in funding for ukraine and israel. The house appeared poised to pass a 95 billion foreign aid and weapons package saturday after democrats rallied behind Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to cl
[inaudible conversations] let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow here in governance stud ies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past and the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an an answers institution and will not know howdy how distress as decline this topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget re solution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept and if it is will todays senate be up to the job of an open deliberation on the most burning domestic question which is more than come itself
Let me try to call this full have stored or, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gholston , senior fellow here in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The location of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate. This one entitled broken can the senate save itself and the country those of you who read his first book on the senates will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget resolution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on Us Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays senate be up
[. [shouting questions] reporter just to get back to the thing that happened a couple days ago, the president tweeted that problem to agreeing with a problem on immigration, the democrats dont want security borders, dont care about safety for usa do you think that is fair character significance . How i would put it that there is a, there is element first of all, let me step back and say, i think honest men and women can disagree on anything politically or otherwise. The one thing i draw a little bit of a line to on the security of the nation. There are certainly people in our country that have the opinion that, that open borders or near open borders are fine. People should be able to come and go. There are others, myself included, you can bet the president , majority of americans feel security on the borders is important. How you achieve that is a different story. I believe, i have a great relationships with the mexicans. We have great relationship with the mexicans on the border. They