The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Almighty god, we give you you s for giving us thanks for giving us another day. You have plom missed, o god, you are with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing to heal and to help, to give strength and make us whole. We pray that the members of this assembly, especially, and us all, will be receptive to your promises and receive them with confidence and conviction that armed by your spirit they will be able to forge good legislation which promotes justice, equity, and truth. May we be mindful of all that that all are created in your image. Help us to see your spirit and those who are different from us it in age, color, religion, and all other ways, including in politics. And engage each other with good will and respect. May all that is done today be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the compare compare and announces to the ouse her app
And in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, on may 16, a group of Peaceful Protesters gathered at a public park outside the turkish ambassadors residence in northwest washington, d. C. They came from a variety of backgrounds, armenian, kurdish, yazidi and more. But they shared a common concern about developments in turkey, including the crackdown on political opposition and free speech in that country and turkeys continued denial of the armenian genocide. About a mile away, turkeys president , erdogan, was received warmly by President Trump at the white house. The protesters felt and rightly so that they had to exercise their First Amendment rights and raise their voices in dissent, the very dissent that has been squelch by erdogan in his own country. What happened nex
Constitution but i dont think often enough if any changes. Your honor, and your honor, in this situation the meaning of the cause with respect to the timing of the vacancy has been a matter of contention since the first days you are questioning my hypothesis. You have to accept my hypothesis. Lets assume it takes these clearly against you. Should i say yes, it says Something Else, but the practice for over 200 years has been Something Different and its a practice that must prevail. Fact they started with George Washington and has worked through. Yes or no. The crack this gives meaning to the constitution. You are questioning my hypothesis. I am assuming a clear text of the constitution and the practice that is contrary to it. Its extremely unlikely it wouldve eyes. I am answering. I will answer it again. The answer is given the crack is going back to the republic, the crack this should be the practice should govern, but we dont have that here. This provision has been subject to content
This would be the case where the court has immediate political impact in terms of appointees. It does. There are a lot of eyes on this case, a lot of friend of the court briefs filed because if the court had taken a certain direction with its final decision that could invalidate literally hundreds of decisions and board appointments. Lets take a look at the oral argument, the case nlrb v. Canning. We would argument first this morning in case 121281, the National Labor Relations Board v. Noel canning. General verrilli . Mr. Chief justice, and it please the Court Interpretation of the recess appointed klaus the respondent urges would repudiate the constitutional legitimacy of thousands of appointments by president s going back to George Washington, and Going Forward would diminish president ial authority in a way that is flatly at odds with the constitutional structure the framers established. Responded simply has not advanced the compelling case that would be need to strip president of
Who framed and ratified the constitution . Because if they had thought about that, theres a real chance the senate may take a twomonth break right. Over christmas. Would there be any reason why they wouldnt have wanted the recess appointment power to apply there as well as at the end of the session . Your honor, our argument does not turn on that because to us it is not a temporal question. Its a procedural one. Back then, the senate had the power not to trigger the recess. Just like today, it has the power not to trigger the recess appointments power. The difference is not in principle. Its in historical context. At the time of the framing, they wanted to trigger the recess appointments power because when they left during long periods of time, they wanted the president to be able to act unilaterally since it was very difficult for them to get back. And if they didnt trigger the power, the only way the president could act unilaterally would the only way the president could confirm nomi