, article 1 section 8 of the constitution states congress shall have the power to declare war, congress, not the president, not the pentagon, not someone else in the executive branch of government but congress. in 2015, then president obama initiated military involvement in yemen. without authorization from congress, the current administration has continued obama's war. sen. sanders, sen. murphy, cosponsors and die, giving congress a chance to fix this error by debating and voting on our nation's continued involvement in this unauthorized, illegal war in yemen. if, as our opponents claim, this war is necessary, then surely they can defend that argument before this body and before the house of representatives and ultimately secure authorization from congress just as the constitution demands under article 1 section 8. it if on the other hand they cannot defend this war and they cannot persuade the majority of members of this body, majority of members of the house of representatives that this is a war that needs to be fought, then it needs to end. let's have an honest reckoning about this

in, in learning more about congress. we're -- looking a lot like some of the earlier periods of congressional history in the 1950s and 1960s that help motivate some of the member in the class in 1974 to run for office. you see congress really abandoning a lot of its constitutional responsibilities backtracking on years really decades of a bipartisan effort to reassert congress as a coequal branch of a government to claw back some of the authority and some of the powers that have been lost to the executive branch. a failure to legislate even on issues that have brought public and bathroom support just incapacity institution to function of failure to conduct independent oversight of the executive branch one of the fundamental reforms that came out of the 1970s. and then unreasonable difference to executive branch where -- the congress should instead be taking initiative too many ways i feel the congress is beginning to resemble what joe clark senator from pennsylvania referred to in the 1960s as the branch of government. a

i've drawn interviews with more than the moderate members of congress to illustrate how the congress shall service worsens for those as the parties became more polarized. i'm going to highlight a few examples of how far policy, party and personal benefits of serving in congress diminished for the moderate as the parties drifted apart. we would appoint hiwe've appoine majority leader or the 40 votes in the pockets except those defended the policy. he was touting the influence that they had at that time. people come here to get things done. they came to help the community and create a better quality of life for the party rewards over time, one moderately interviewed said if you dare deviate from the party line you get a penalty. the next time comes around and you want a committee assignment you are given little attention. i didn't have a chance of getting the ways and means and appropriations because i deviated too much from the party position. one member i spoke with said when we lost the majority in 2006, the ranking member determined my future wasn't on ththe railroad committee it w

, but congress. yet come in 2015, then president obama initiated our military involvement and did so without authorization for congress. the current administration has continued obama supporter, senator sanders, senator murphy, cosponsors and i are giving congress a chance to fix the right debating and voting on our nation continued involvement in this unauthorized war in yemen. now with us her opponents claim this war is necessary, then surely they can defend t that argument before this body and before the house of representatives and ultimately secure authorization for congress just as the constitution demands under article i, section eight. but if on the other hand they cannot defend this war and they cannot persuade a majority of members of this body and a majority of members of the house of representatives that this is a war that needs to be fought, then it needs to and. let's have an honest reckoning about this for today. before this debate gets underway in earnest, there are a few points i wou

that is why congress then impeached him. more accurate it might be to say they had an excuse to impeach him finally, and they did. mr. rosen: this was not a trivial dispute over a legalistic matter, this is a clash between johnson, who does not want to enforce the 14th amendment, and being him and congress who does. bingham had a rather radical proposal that the supreme court should be wiped out if it refused to support reconstruction. tell us about his views on the court. mr. magliocca: well, it is fair to say that most of the reconstruction framers were worried about what the supreme court would do. their solution was to prevent and the supreme court about saying anything about the constitutionality of what they were doing. this sort of came in the form of a variety of threats. for example a law saying you , needed a super majority of supreme court justices, 2/3 to declare a law unconstitutional. that was something bingham talked about. he also talked about wiping them out. he never made clear what that meant. [laughter] m

does congress have the will to act and does congress have the basic courage this country nee needs? i am sorry to say that i don't know. we can't it to the test. there has been a lot of talk, more than normal, even about our need to act in this chamber. i will say this to my colleagues let's make this time different. let's listen to the children from stoneman douglas high school and let's seize this moment and let's take action. i am import my colleagues to listen to the country is saying about gun violence today. listen to the families, listen to the survivors from f parklan. tune out all the other noise. i did. it is possible. ten years ago i had an a rating from the nra, just like many of my colleagues today but when i met [inaudible], when i met her classmates, she was an honor student from brooklyn and she was dancing with her friends, having fun, loving life. she was killed by a stray bullet in her community. now i have an f rating from the nra. i don't understand how after meeting with all these families, after meeting with all these children whose lives have been destroyed a

how did president lincoln convince congress to add two states in two years. nevada and west virginia? >> to do what? >> to add two more states in the union? >> well, they were going to be republican states. [ laughter ] and it was congress that was behind this primarily, too, but of course, he went along and they added west virginia, as well, and that wasn't going to be republican initially. that was a unionist state and they were conservatives, an example of conservative senators, could come in pretty much radical republicans in the middle of the road by the end of the war. so earlier in the war it was kansas, early, before the war. in 1861. and then nevada late in the war. of course, the democrats charged that this was really trying to get more electoral votes, and some republicans might have had that in mind in congress. and the efforts in the south to establish loyal governments as well, our union governments charged this was the reason, but no, not for lincoln it was not, i don't think. i think we can safely say that, that he wanted these states. these s

but congress. yet, in 2015 then president obama start initiated the military environment in yemen and did so without authorization from congress. the current administration has continued obama's war. senator sanders, senator murphy and our cosponsors and i are now giving congress a chance to fix this error by debating and voting on our nation's continued involvement in this unauthorized illegal war in yemen. if, as our opponents claim, this war is necessary then surely they can defend that argument for this body and for the house of representatives and authorization from congress just as the constitution demands under article one s section eight butf on the other hand they cannot defend this war and they cannot persuade a majority of members of his body and members of the representatives that this is a war that needs to be thought that it needs to end. let's have an honest reckoning about the sport today. for this debate gets underway in earnest there are a few points that i would like to clarify.

congress passed the dawes act, a few years after -- congress, he amended the dawes act to the curtis act which dissolved all tribal governance. a lot of the lands when two individuals. the detriment to the native americans with that, in part, was that the children were trafficked by those who would gather them by the score of petition the courts for guardianship of the orphaned children. they took their inheritance from the child. the children were often just disappear. joseph murrow thought this was not christian and not right. as a matter of justice in advocating those he loved, he started a indian orphan home. he used this press to spread word about the issues and to raise awareness for the issue and the indian orphan home. the indian orphan was a newspaper and a sense that tried ,o promote the injustice promote awareness of the injustice being done to the native americans orphans. the contents included news about fundraising and some missions work happening in the area at , and a little bit southeast of us in shawnee. this press is here to remind our students that printed word is

congress passed the huge bailout, but to keep this from ever happening again, congress decided to put the small number of american banks that controlled more than $50 billion in assets. this is about 40 of the largest banks in the country, to put them on a watch list. those banks would be under tougher federal oversight and would be subject to some stronger rules to stop them from bringing down the economy again. a small bank in adams, massachusetts, would be regulated one way and a giant bank with offices around the country and around the globe would get a much closer look. that makes real sense. if this bill passes, washington will scrap those rules for 25 of those enormous banks. under this bill, a bank that controls up to a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets and has offices around the country and around the globe will follow the same rules and regulations and same oversight as a tiny, little bank in adams, massachusetts. now, that's great if you are a quarter of a trillion dollar bank, but not so great for anyone else. this bill isn't about restrictions on asset measures and

, but congress. yet, in 2015, then-president obama initiated our military involvement in yemen and did so without authorization from congress. the current administration has continued obama's war. senator sanders, senator murphy, our cosponsors and i are now giving congress a chance to fix this error by debating and voting on our nation's continued involvement in this unauthorized, illegal war in yemen. now, if as our opponents claim this war is necessary, then surely they can defend that argument before this body and before the house of representatives and ultimately secure authorization from congress just as the constitution demands under article 1, section 8. but if on the other hand they cannot defend this war and they cannot persuade a majority of members of this body and a majority of members of the house of representatives that this is a war that needs to be fought, then it needs to end. let's have an honest reckoning about this war today. before this debate gets under way in ernest, there are

how has congress acted? this has been a chaotic fiscal year in terms of the budgetary process, appropriations progress in congress. what congress is supposed to do is come together in a bipartisan basis and pass funding bills before september 30, before october 1 of every year and that would be a year-long funding bill that would fund you for an entire year. is only one labor hhs appropriations bill that governs for the year. we are currently on our fifth short-term funding bill of this funding cycle. october, it is lurching from funding bill to or may notl, you may remember we did have a brief shut down a long weekend in january. congress has done has been funding education programs at the prior-year levels, they have not yet created the school choice proposals that are in the president's budget. however, we are only funded now for another couple of weeks. the funding expires on march 23. if congress is unable to come together again on a bipartisan funding solution in their appetite for the short-term fundi

decision if congress wants to do that. and it's a decision that applies in circumstance -- >> under this act -- could you voluntarily disclose this to the government or would that be a violation of 2702? >> it would not be a violation of 2702. if we voluntarily did something, but it would be a violation of our obligations to our customers. >> if that's so then why can't government obtain this by subpoena? >> so -- that is another big question, this is -- a statute in which a government and used a a warrant. a subpoena could not reach a lot of these e-mails because subpoena would not reach e-mails that are in storm warning for less than 180 days and statute and circuit decision couldn't reach them at all that is individuals private -- voluntarily disclose that they couldn't have a subpoena. >> seems odd to me that if you could voluntarily disclose but they couldn't ask for a subpoena that doesn't quite -- mesh does it? >> your honor, my point is, i recognize we have difficult statute here. >> your honor, if we voluntarily d

the idea that there's more training for congress has recently been emphasized by congress. jeff flake's recent speech he said you're not here simply to mark time. in florida she said in her retirement announcement that it's a realization that i could keep getting reelected but that's not what it's about. one of the party recruiters said the ability to get something done is always a question for people who want to serve in public office. one noted that those wanted outcomes. in my book i look at women 20 moderate members to see how congressional service worsen for those in the middle as the parties became more polarized. going to highlight examples of how this diminishing moderates as the parties drifted apart. with respect to declining policy impact once said that will go to majority her weapon said i have 40 pot 40 votes that said no. we are forced to be reckoned with. we could influence state policy on a daily basis. this is a member who served at the '90s. compared to ten years after that another member said you can't go across the aisle like you used to to get things do

now it's time for congress to do the same. it's time for congress to choose. we can either stand with the students or you can stand with the n.r.a. history will judge us all. the students of this country are being cut down in the classroom in cold blood. yet, the do-nothing republican congress is missing in action. we don't work for the n.r.a. we don't work for the gun manufacturers. we don't work for the merchants of death. we work for the american people and it's time for us to finally address the gun violence epidemic in america. enough is enough. the american people deserve a better deal. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. all members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair and not perceived viewing audience. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, mrs. demings, for five minutes. mrs. demings: mr. speaker, one month ago today a man brutally murdered 17 children and educators in parkland, florida. he killed these innocent people using a semi automatic assault-style weapon. these weapons designed for the battlefield are

congress essentially ignore them. congress does that to all presidents. long as i have been covering washington, presidents have proposed things in their budget that congress ignores. it will be entertaining if the president announces he is vetoing it. this president is wont to give a surprises. i want to come back on this approach to fiscal responsibility. if you were back in the senate, what would you be advocating? has anyone come up with a plan to take on this issue since bowles-simpson? >> they came very close to an speakert between boehner and president obama that would have been substantial. it didn't go through at the last moment. that doesn't mean it can't be done. all it takes is leadership. i believe the way to do it is to reconstitute an approach where you put together a bipartisan group of folks who are entirely made up of congress with presidential press -- participation. you give them a charge and say, gets the debt and gdp ratio down to 70% and hold it there. that is a pretty high percentage, where we have historically been is 35%. take a

working for all of congress. i think that you can have conversations with the director , you can go one-on-one with the director, and you can raise these issues, you can put it in context for you, the same can be done at the staff level. it's a matter of understanding that they have to give the same set of analysis to everyone, and everyone has the benefit of their thinking. it may not line up with a particular policy position or not. my view is, with the budget set things up, they set up cbo to be that source of nonpartisan independent for congress, just what i see independence, independence for congress. it was the budget committees that were the policy positions using that nonpartisan analysis , and go forward from there to be the policy ideas and not so much cbo. >> you said you wished we were focused on bigger picture issues than just process, and yet we probably spend more time arguing about the referees than we do focusing on the underlying policy. it seems to me we should be pushing the referees to the ba

that's been really a hallmark of all i have worked in congress and we have seen this in congress with support for israel whether it's iron dome, whether it's david, the iran sanctions in the 98-2 vote out of the united states senate or whether it is the memorandum of understanding in the $38 billion, largest amount ever put into israel's security. at the same time things have come very polarized and so the way i would suggest and your leaders know this and you know this better than anyone to try to do everything. your republican reach out to democrats. if you're a democrat, reach out to republicans. getting youth involved and seizing on some of those issues that israel and this community has long stood up for whether it's a taking on climate change. whether it's immigration reform. whether it is standing up for refugees. these are issues that the jewish community has been uniquely active on. i think those are issues that areappealing to young people. so many of them don't know that history. that's why i appreciate how aipac has reached out in that way. the last thing i say about this

inside congress news there. want to get your thought what do open phones, you want to talk about, give us a call. john up first in brooklyn, new york. a democrat. good morning. calked good morning. so much for taking my call. my comment is really fairness nd education, specifically for elementary and high school. inner cifically in the city for young black, hispanic on ents, being able to xhut withon -- out with an education that encompasses full breadth of i don't know if that is implemented properly. student comes out of high school to be able education to follow their dreams and be able to get into college and get a profession that can sustain a of in our society and i don't think that is being done think the don't details of the education that our children are getting is properly.ng addressed and it is a shame to our country witheveryone is not coming the best quality education possible. sharon in troy, missouri, a republican. what is on your mind this morning? congress and senate and all those people raise

and the congress after that. [applause] ms. woodruff: and who knows, women in the majority, that's coming. [applause] ms. woodruff: after all, a woman's place is in the house. [laughter] ms. woodruff: and in the senate, or any other political office. [applause] ms. woodruff: the progress, insufficient though it is, in my profession, journalism, tracks pretty closely. women reporters were very much in the minority for most of this modern era. it was, after all, the boys on the bus until geraldine ferraro was picked as the first woman on a national ticket in 1984. then we started to see more and more women reporters joining the guys. it was only five years ago that my dear colleague and friend, the late, wonderful gwen eiffel, and i became the first women co-anchors of a nationally broadcast news program. [applause] ms. woodruff: and i am delighted that a couple of weeks ago it was announced that the current ranks of sunday talk shows, so many years anchored only by men, are now again joined by a woman. cbs's marga

, but congress. yet in 2015 then president obama initiated our military involvement and did so without authorization from congress. the current administration has continued obama's war. senator sanders, senator murphy, cosponsors my giving congress a chance to fix this error by debating and voting other nations continued involvement in this unauthorized illegal war in yemen. if as our opponents claimed this was necessary, then surely they can defend that argument before this body and before the house of representatives and ultimately secure authorization from congress just as the constitution demands. but if they cannot defend this war and they cannot persuade a majority of this body that this is a war that needs to be fought, then it needs to and. let's have an honest reckoning about this war today. before this gets underway in earnest there are a few points i like to clarify. let's talk about iran for a moment. yes, they did fire on a u.s. navy vessel. this reinforces the fact that yemenis view the

congress chose to ignore some of the suggestions of the c.b.p. where the best kind of wall should go and that's unfortunate. and some other things we asked for that we did not get. there's limitations on d.h.s. that congress put in the bill that we don't particularly care for. but generally speaking, we think this is a really, really good immigration package. one of the reasons the democrat hispanic caucus probably doesn't like it very much. the gentleman in the back and there and there. >> and on the 14 miles in san diego, and is that replacing something that's already there? adding to it as -- and i'm trying to understand how it is that in san diego, you don't have any type of wall at all? >> san diego is a secondary wall so -- have you ever been to the border in san diego? a wall on the border and a secondary wall and a two-wall system with some roads on both sides. this is the secondary wall which is -- which would be the -- another wall behind the first one and it's the prototype that's again, i don't know how to describe it. if it has a nam

does congress have the will to act? does congress have the basic courage this country needs? i'm sorry to say that i don't know. but we can put it to the test. there has been a lot of talk, more than normal, even about our need to act in this chamber. so i will say this to my colleagues, let's make this time different. let's listen to the children from stoneman douglas high school. let's seize this moment. let's take action. i implore my colleagues to listen to what the country is saying about gun violence today. listen to the families. listen to the survivors from parkland and tune out all the other noise. i did. it is possible. ten years ago i had an "a" rating from the n.r.a., just like many of my colleagues today. but when i met the mother of naisha pryor yard, when i met her classmates, naisha was an honor student from brooklyn. she was dancing with her friends, having fun, loving life she was killed by a stray bullet in her community. now i have an "f" rating from the n.r.a., and i don't understand how after meeting with all these families, after meeting with all these

mark zuckerberg testified before congress. last week's swamp watch fired you up so we will follow up. the congressman will join me live and i will ask what congress can do to stop it. never mind stormy daniels. i am sick of all this tabloid crab. let's get to what's important. everyone is fired up about this $1.3 trillion spending bill including some of the president's biggest supporters. ann coulter, our guest last week tweeted, congratulations president schumer. rush limbaugh set i feel like i just saw resident trump get on the escalator and go back up. our other guest judge dineen argued this is all on congress, not the president. here's what i think peter might be some foxnews.com this weekend. talk about the budget because we now know for sure that none of our leaders in congress are interested in what the americans will vote for in an election or solving our debt crisis. that's the main driver of the populace revolution. on the left with bernie sanders in the right with donald trump. it's the belief that it doesn't matte

they set up cbo to be independence, for congress. say independence, independence for congress. budget committee is set up as policyt arm. the budget committees sort of set the policy positions using that non-partisan analysis and go forward from there, to be the policy, it is policy ideas and not so much cbo on the policy side. >> miss macguineas, you said you wish we were focused on bigger picture issues than just process and yet we probably spend more time arguing about the referees than we do focus on underlying policy. seems to me we should push the referees to the background. they should be referees of behind the scenes conversation but they shouldn't rise to the level of importance that it gets in the way of the actual policy conversation we're trying to have. >> i think you have asked the most interesting questions in this whole hearing because i still think about the ones you asked previous panel about cbo versus omb and they're really thoughtful. i think cbo we need a referee, we need a referee that we agree is doing a good job. that is why oversight hearings are reall

that's congress's decision if congress wants to could that. it's a decision that applies in certain -- >> under the act, could you voluntary disclose this to the government or would that be a violation of 2702? >> it would not be a violation of 2702 if we voluntarily did something. but it would be a violation of our obl gigations to our customers. >> if that's so, why can't the government obtain this by a subpoena? >> that is another big question. this is a statute in which, the scenario in which the government used a warrant, a subpoena could not reach a lot of these e-mails because a subpoena would not reach e-mails that are in stored for less than 180 days under the staut ut and under a sixth circuit decision couldn't reach them at all. that is individuals, private -- >> could voluntary disclose that they couldn't have a subpoena? >> i'm sorry? >> you could voluntary disclose but they couldn't ask for a subpoena. that doesn't quite mesh, does it? >> i recognize we have a difficult statute here. >> your honor, if we voluntary disclosed, it w

paving the way for a new era of voting in china's national congress could keep season playing and power indefinitely. of them or a colossal this is our life from also coming out. all the all the death toll goes out and syria's eastern gator is the government continues to pound the rebel held and play. there not sending missiles up and i believe that donald trump says north korea has promised to halt its missile tests ahead of this meeting with kim jong un plus on record reporters from an dog or a journey probably through the web all three were broken from the remotest wharton's although. they began in syria where government and russian as strikes have killed forty people on saturday and injured dozens and rebel held eastern cusa women and children are among the latest victims in the offensive to take the last remaining rebel stronghold as syria's capital of government forces a main significant gains in their battle to seize east and the orange stripes here . so how much territory the rebels had on february eighteenth that's when the government stepped up its offensive three weeks of hea

i would invite you or any other members of the congress to respond. i reach out in a spirit of openness and affection and as much as possible to say we have to get america moving in the right direction again. and mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom maryland seek recognition? mr. raskin: when i first started speaking and there was a madam speaker before me. i rise to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed say no. the house stands adjourned until noon monday, march 19 rnings 2018 for morning hour debate. monday on c-span's landmark ases, plessy, an african-american man was arrested for taking a seat. it established the separate but qual doctrine that allowed segregation. this narrow interpretation wasn't overturned until brown versus board of education. examine this case with ted shaw, law professor and director of the civil rights at the niversity of north carolina. and legal

so the question here becomes these are funds to be appropriated by congress. you know, they have to be broken down by every function, by every agency, except the fund, you know, cjs, commerce, justice programs, transportation programs, housing programs, labor programs, and education programs. what congress now has to do is sort of divide this overall pool of money into these agencies, and then into programs within those agencies, and that becomes an opportunity for us as states to tell congress how they can best invest in our states and invest in our students, and so if there are particular programs or needs in your state that could require an infusion of additional federal resources, those resources are sociessenti available here, but in the fiscal year we are in right now as well as the forthcoming one starting in october, so generally encouraging states as we engage with our state level educations tomorrow and ongoing, tell the story about how education funds can i want prove opportunities. however, again, this is potentially an opportunity to better align

and in congress, the press. but in the early historical treatments of his administration, back to this point of the historiography, their voices, his defenders think, were largely ignored. after grant left office and even more so after his death, many of the men he had tangled with, many of his most implacable enemies, rushed to publish their version of events in articles and books and so forth. men of the most influential in that period, and the postpresidential and after grant's death was henry adams. in the book that many of you are familiar, but you probably read in college, "the education of henry adams", published 100 years ago. there is a long-standing feud between the addams family and ulysses s. grant. let me quote a couple of lines to give you the flavor of his old adversary. "grant's administration was pre-intellectual, archaic, and it would seem so even to the cave dwellers. concession to the nation's highest office by such a man, said adams, made evolution ludicrous. progress of evolution from presi

any dispute between congress and the president, he tended to take the side of congress. he loved lincoln and thought he was a wonderful president. that didn't apply to republican presidents. reluctant toam was vote for impeachment. thaddeus stevens was saying that johnson should be impeached months before bingham agreed to that. ultimately, bingham6 felt that he needed some reason to -- bingham felt that he needed some reason to impeached. i think that, with something like impeaching president obama, maybe the answer would be, that's not going to work, so why bother? mr. rosen: that sounds like that might well be the case. had a kind of sad second half after these extraordinary achievements that you described. bethen went off to and miss the japan follow-up of the supreme court's refusal to implement the 14th amendment. mr. magliocca: he's not renominated for another term in congress. at that point, people are tired of him in that district. congress,eaves president grant appointed him to be ambassador to japan. he had a wonderful time being ambassador, lived there with h

some members of congress are certainly responding to that. kamala hary booker, rris, bernie sanders, going around the country and talking to the resistance, being active in that space. there is a very serious debate in that country of what sort of direction the country will go. i will say trump supporters, many of them are able to put those issues aside and sort of -- appreciate what the president hardline --terms of it's a big debate right now. host: the caller specifically brought up bernie sanders. role in the democratic party right now? guest 2: i think he is trying to figure that out. he ruled out a 2020 run. he's in his mid-70's i think, so he would be the oldest president by far to do it if he won. he is certainly an energizing factor, but certainly a polarizing factor. and he has to weigh those two things. he gets enormous crowds around the country and liberals love him. he is the progressive movement guy and i should mention elizabeth warren is in that 2020ory, too, for contender. she is mentioned in that group of people who might ru

and where was the congress getting out the facts? what the vice s president of the united states, saddam hussein is building weapons of mass destruction. there's a connection between saddam hussein and iraq and the 9/11. it was a lie. a it was a lie. and congress voted to approve of war based on false information. so what i say, mr. president, today, it is time for the congress to accept its constitutional responsibility or i don't know how well we will do. maybe we will screw it up as well, very possible. that's what the founding fathers suggested, and i think that they were right. we are closer to the people. the house and the senate, that is the white house. this white house or any of the white house. so the two issues today, do we accept our constitutional responsibility to vote on matters of war? i have suggested every member of the senate vote yes. don't duck your responsibility. don't abdicate your responsibility. second, the war in yemen in i my view hasn been a you managing disaster as a result of saudi intervention. but the

this congress, i don't know why, but this congress wants to give it to them apparently. so what has the senate done to respond to wells fargo's misbehavior? well, first of all, republicans a couple of months ago passed a $1.5 trillion, that's a thousand billion, $1.5 trillion tax cut, one of the biggest beneficiaries? wells fargo. what did they do with that money? they say they gave a little bit to employees. they say maybe they'll invest a little more. what they really did, they announced they're going to buy back $22 million of stock this year. that's money that, when they buy back stock, the price of the stock goes up. and executives and shareholders are enriched. the stock buyback investment, the $22 billion, they are spending to buy back stock, that's 288 times -- 288 times what wells fargo will spend on pay raises for its workers. so it gives a little bit to its workers. it gives, whatever it gives to its workers multiply by almost 300, that's what the executives are going to get. executives and shareholders. why are we doing favors for wells fargo in this bill? it

congress put together a report inand issued a january of 1819. they basically documented that the bank was terribly corrupt. it was terribly inefficient. simply not an institution that you would trust. out atthis was coming precisely the same point that the case was being set up to be argued for the supreme court in february. with the second bank of united states, particularly the bothmore branch, you alluded to the issues that have been at the heart of this debate since the founding. this became kind of a proxy for that discussion. >> absolutely. one of the instances of this around the country that added to the panic was to pass laws designed to drive the bank out of the territory. theland law was one of milder reforms. it is arguable that maryland just wanted to raise revenue. ohio, which like past end up in litigation the statute requiring the bank to pay $50,000 of hard cash. that was each year it stayed open. those laws were designed to drive the bank out of the state entirely. was really joined, does the federal government have the power to

that is congress is decision if congress wants to do that if congress applies it under certain conditions. >> under this act, could you voluntarily disclose to the government or would that be a violation of 2702? >> it would not be a violation of 2702 of we voluntarily did something but it would be a violation of our obligations to our customers. >> if that is so, why can't the government just obtain -- question. another big its is a statute in which if was where the government used a warned, subpoena could not reach a lot of the emails. a subpoena would not reach emails that are in storage for less than 180 days. under a sixth circuit decision it could not reach them alone, that as individuals -- >> could not voluntarily disclose -- >> i'm sorry -- >> it seems odd you could voluntarily disclose, they could not ask for a subpoena? that does not quite mesh, does it? >> if we voluntarily disclosed, it would be a violation of our obligations to our customer and also by the way it would be a violation of european law. i want to backup. after 180 days the government could get this material as

he was washington's man in congress. eisenhower couldn't have won the war if he didn't have roosevelt and the leaders of congress behind him. eisenhower could not good out and buy arms and ammunitions. the same with washington ask the story of the revolution just told through washington's eyes and deservedly so but ignores the fact, how did he clog and feed his men? it was richard henry lee who did that. yes, ma'am. [inaudible question] >> that's lightfoot. harry lee was his have no few, hero in the revolutionary war, great commander and later became governor of virginia and was the father of robert e. lee. >> is there a book on the family history? a history on the family? >> yes, loads of books called the las of virginia -- >> which one would you recommend? >> i wouldn't. i'd recommend my book. yes, sir. >> you talk about how the french ship provided supplies -- at lease one ship provided supplies at the battle of saratoga. i'm interested in what the kind of real-time communications at the time were when they were dispa

in the decision to run for congress. they did and did not run for congress between 2000 and 2010. the time. of the data allows me to speak primarily to recent changes in polarization that it contributed to polarization and previous decades as well. the main outcome that i'm interested in. if they ran for congress. in zero if they ran for the state legislature again. the main independent variable is a state legislators distance between her and the party leadership in congress. in a variety of ways. it seems most appropriate to measure party that the absolute distance between the state legislature in the party leaders. since they are all on the same scale. they also expect to matter for the decision to run for congress. the amount of money they raise as state legislators. before getting into the results. again these are state legislators serving from 2000, 22010. current and former members of congress. they are the current minority leader. i will also refer to former moderate republicans like olympia snowe. and a founder of the blue dog coalition of moderate democrats. they fall alo

it's a little late in the process, congress has already left. 40 members of congress who were at representative luis lauder's funeral now. they left on military aircraft. they cannot be called back right now. so this is a little late in the process to begin talking about daca. but that sailed a few weeks ago. >> harris: jennifer griffin, stand by as our journalist at the pentagon. we'll come back as warranted. want to bring in a guest now, for my special assistant amount we are watching this situation started by tweet today with i'm considering a veto from president trump but if we can, we will put that up on the screen. then we got another tweet just a short time ago about this news conference. your reaction. >> i was at the white house yesterday and i traveled with the vice president last night to new hampshire and it was widely known among many of the senior staff that i stay in contact with that the president was not a fan of this big omnibus bill because it did not address the things that he said he wanted to address with the 11, with border security, money for the wall. but he did get som

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and next, the congress of 1862 and its actions to have president lincoln's secretary of state william sueward replaced. this is about 45 minutes. >>> i am privileged to introduce d our next speaker dr. william c. harris. b bill harris is professor of emeritus at a north carolina state university. he is a native of alabama and earned his b.a. degree at alabama in 1954. he remembers seeing legendary alabama football coach bear bryant at the popular pugs restaurant, but he said he was too intimidated to approach the legendary coach. and after serving in the air force, he returned to school in tuss ka lieu is a and earned his doctorate. his teaching career took him to milsap college and then to north carolina state where he served as the chair of the department of history. whether administering or teach thing or both, his scholarship has never stalled. she the author of 14 book, and numerous articles and essays on the civil war and reconstruct n reconstruction. seven of the books relate to lincoln and notable "for charity and all" and lincoln and the restoration of the union which won the

sanders: it is terrible that congress has failed to act. the president gave congress six months and gave them a plan. he gave them four pillars that he wanted to see in legislation. legislation and principles that the majority of members of congress have supported in the past. they claim to want to fix daca. the president laid out a pathway and exact way to do it. and failed to address it. we hope congress will do their job, show up and get something done and fix this problem, not kick it down the road and not continue to ignore the it. reporter: i expect you are expecting a favorable ruling from the supreme court and then what happens? ms. sanders: we fully expect to win on an appeal and we feel confident there as well. but again, it's congress' job to pass laws and the president has laid out what he wants to see and the sad part is that both republicans and democrats don't disagree on most of the merits of this legislation. the fact that they can't come together and get something done is pathetic and using the courts as an excuse. they ne

conveying their determination to members of congress. it's interesting to hear how determined they are to make a change and to understand some of it will have to unfold but they want to meaningful change. they were insisting on action to prevent gun violence. the american people agree, 97% of americans want background checks for all gun buyers including the same percentage among gun owners. there's a command said bipartisan commonsense bipartisan support yesterday. we were encouraged but why president trump had to say. their members who attended the meeting joined with mike thompson putting out a statement last night. that was mike thompson of california chair of our task force to prevent gun violence joined by connecticut who had new town and her history and stephanie murphy in orlando area and of course ted deutch affected most recently. their report was that what they heard the president say agreed that we should fix next and so cdc can research the public health crisis. that is the bill of stephanie murphy and hopefully that will be

what role does congress or can congress play in the redistricting process? do you believe we're mostly going to see reform happen at the state level or are we eventually going to get to a point where we can have a national standard developed? >> all of the above. i think there will be in the foreseeable future, we will see the changes occurring at the state level. that's reel where i think the foreseeable future is. i think that it was a fascinating process when we first started to do the arizona case, just to get congress involved in the amikas brief, and what we decided, what common cause and others decided was to have an equal number of democrats and republicans sign-on to the amikas brief. i will be honest, deadly force difficult getting an equal number. and we ended up i think having i think ten democrats and ten republicans on the amikas brief. but it took a lot of work to get those 20 who are really the champions in the congress for educating ourselves and in a bipartisan way. and so -- and then i introduced a bill and others have also. my bill was to

i urge congress to reflect on why they first ran for office. we are here's public servants to serve the people who sent us here. not to serve the organization and companies and lobbyists that demand political retribution when we do the morally right thing. . . needs? i'm sorry to say that i don't know. but we can put it to the test. there has been a lot of talk, more than normal, even about our need to act in this chamber. so i will say this to my colleagues, let's make this time let's make this time different. let's listen to the children from stoneman douglas high school. let's seize this moment. let's take action. i implore my colleagues to listen to what the country isol saying about gun violence today. listen to the families. listen to the survivors from parkland and tune out all the other noise. i did. it is possible. 10 years ago i had an a rating from the nra. just like many of my colleagues today but when i methe the mother's and when i met her classmates myeshia was an honors student from brooklyn. she was dancing with her friends hav