discusses why moderates might be less likely to run for congress. good evening. i am a kevin b harrington student ambassador. i like to welcome you and thank you for joining us for this evening's events. the institute's mission is to educate engage and empower citizens of all ages to actively participate in the civic and political life and strengthen democracy. the institute is nonpartisan. before we begin this evening's program i would just like to remind you to turn off any cell phones or other devices that may make a noise. tonight speaker daniel thompson is an assistant professor at the knoxville school of public affairs. she received her phd. miss thompson was a post doctoral fellow. at the political institution. she has been the recipient overheard ten fellowships in grants. for the best dissertation in american politics. tonight miss thompson will be joining us to discuss her latest book. opting out of congress. the polarization in the decline of moderate candidates. her work shows that they are less likely to run for it remain in congress than those in the extreme. the

congress. we have three aims. we are the museum of we the people, the center for education, and america's town hall where people can come in makethe best arguments and up their own minds. in that spirit, i am thrilled today to introduce you to our author. he has written the definitive the james madison amendment. you will appreciate how centrally important john bingham .as this man had no definitive biography written before, and gerard, it is a riveting job. you will be riveted by this book. , thell illuminate so much issues americans debating today, and help us understand the origins of her liberty. i will briefly introduce our author and we will begin the conversation. he is the samuel rosen professor at the university of indiana. name.an honorable that is at the school of law. you have written three books, 20 articles on international law and property. joining indiana university, he spent two years as a lawyer, one year as a law clerk answered briefly on the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit. you are a teacher as well, and we share a teacher at yield law school. i think that

no uncertain terms that, and i quote, congress shall have power to declare war, end of quote. let me repeat it. article 1, section 8, of the constitution states, it is congress that has the power to declare war. the founding fathers gave the power to authorize military conflicts to congress, the branch most accountable to the people. not to the president but to congress, and that is the issue that we are going to be debating today. mr. president, for far too long, congress under democratic and republican administrations has abdicated its constitutional role in authorizing war. the time is long overdue for congress to reassert that constitutional authority, and that is what today is about. and that is why i and 14 cosponsors of this resolution -- senators lee, murphy, warren, booker, leahy, markey, feinste feinstein, merkley, gillibrand, schatz and balanced written -- that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what we are saying is if congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else, vote to go to war. that is your constitutional responsibility. stop abdicating th

nuanced about it. if congress takes a look at this, realizing that much time canoccurred since 1986, it write a statute that takes account of various interests. it is not just all or nothing. say tot it be wiser to ifve things as they are congress wants to regulate this brave new world it should do it? >> a couple responses. i agree it was amended subsequently after 1986. we think the court should leave things as they are with the instruments congress authorized requiring that person to produce information regardless of whether it is stored. microsoft made a unilateral decision. nothing in the law requires or prohibits it. congress acted against a backdrop of law dating back to another decision in 1958 and running through a decision in 1987, under which the basic role of both the mystic and international laws that when a court has jurisdiction over an issues, thatat person must comply with the order regardless of where they have chosen to store the information. say thatcorrect to congress agrees the act is not have extraterritorial application? kennedy.ustice >> do you read the stat

the members of congress. actually he don't know whose views they reflect other than own. >> america hat many founding fathers but unknown, william withel, joseph hughes, 56 who signed the declaration of independence, each of them of enormous importance to their community and state in the 1770s, '80s and '90s. most of them are forgotten today along with the 39 founders who signed the constitution. most americans don't know their names either. but as i wrote in the introduction to my new book, one of to the founders, richard henry lee, was the first of the founding fathers, and deserves as much or more attention than almost all the others. before washington, before patrick henry, jefferson, franklin or adams, richard henry lee was first to call for independence from britain. he was first to call for union of the states. right up there, lisch -- liberty and union. hi first to call for union, the first to call for amending the constitution with a bill of rights and first to call for abolition of slavery. yes, he was a virginian, and he owned slaves but he nonetheless was the first of th

quote, congress shall have power to declare war. let me repeat it. article one section eight of the constitution states it is congress that has the power to declare war. the founding fathers give the power to authorize military conflict to congress in the branch most accountable to the people, not to the president but to congress and that is the issue that we are going to be debating today. mr. president, for far too long congress on the democratic an ad republican administrationca have abdicated its constitutional role in authorizing war. the time is long overdue but congress to reassert that constitutional authority and that is what today is about. that is why i in 14 cosponsors of this resolution, senator lee, murphy, warren, berger, feinstein, that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what we are saying is that congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else vote to go to war and that is your constitutional responsibility and stop abdicating that responsibility to a president whether it is a republican president or in the past democratic president. mr. pre

latest book, opting out of congress, and the decline of moderate candidates. her work shows that moderates are less likely to run for and remain in congress than those at the extreme. future bipartisanship will depend on encouragements of moderate congressional -- following remarks will have a brief question and answer time. please welcome daniel thompson. [applause] >> it evening and thank you for having me. i want to thank the professor inviting me here in and for helping to make all of the arrangements. i'm glad to be here. a present from my recent book manuscript that came out which was called opting out of congress, and the decline of moderate candidates. but a decade ago after the 2006 congressional election, time magazine suggested that it was the new place to be. the numbers tell a different story. virtually all of the moderates have retire. one of the most recent is charlie dent. he announced his retirement last year citing the increase polarization rigidity that leads to chaos. as lauren mccurdy how political science at princeton recent wrote, what is remarkable about t

senate budget committees and support the work of congress with the nonpartisan budgetary analysis. even though cbo has existed for decades, this oversight series marks the first time the agency has ever undergone a comprehensive review. over the years cbo's mission of supporting the congressional budget process has remained the same. but as we have learned during the hearings, demands on and expectations of the agency have evolved. so while the purpose of this series has certainly been educational, it is also helped us identify and consider potential areas for improvement. at the end of the day, we want to make sure cbo has everything it needs to fulfill the mandate of supporting congress in the 21st century effectively and efficiently. we started this series by discussing cbo's organizational and operational structure with the director, dr. keith hall. in our second hearing we began to explore some of the more technical aspects of how cbo crafts the impartial work products congress relies on to make informed legislative decisions. during our third hearing, we took a deeper dive i

congress would have done or intended in a totally different situation today. the problem that justice ginsburg alludes to this by doing so is we are trenching on the very same it doesn't want to do, where jurisprudence doesn't want to do, which is to create international problems. i understand there is a bill being proposed by bipartisan centers that would give you most of what you want, go with great protections and corn conflicts. there are limitations involving records that are stored abroad. why shouldn't we leave the status quo as it is and let congress pass the bill in this new age? so it addresses potential problems that you're reading would create. >> i've got a star with the last part of your question otherwise i will forget what the last part is. there is not an international problem here. largely of march microsoft is seeking to create. >> complaining about how this would conflict with so much foreign law telling us how much this conflicts. >> the order we seek would conflict into law. the state department and the office has heard no complaints from foreign governme

absolutely essential to congress in performance of its article i duties. at by partisan policy center we view cbo as the gold standard of fiscal and policy analysis. we don't have the view that cbo's analysis is always right or agree with them but their longstanding objectivity. bpc stood strongly against the legislation, proposals considered last summer to make drasticul cuts in cbo and modify and eliminate the budget analysis decision. those are the wrong approaches to deal with issues and concerns members have. some advocated use of outside organizations to substitute for cbo. meldingd estimates of policy he can expectations with relevant expertise. this approach is unworkable and i think would actually greatly diminish the both quality and quantity of objective analysis that members get. non-partisan analysis is not simply the product of splitting the difference between partisan positions. secondly, effective communications has beenes alludd to today between cbo an congress is one of the agency's biggest challenges. it is madeha more difficult by changes in the budget process over th

wow, who knew a book about congress would attract such a crowd. welcome, i'm bradley graham co-owner of politics and pro along with my wife melissa and behalf of everybody. thank you, thank you so much for being here. so, so part of the story that had we're here to mark today does involve a chapter in the history of congress. told by john lawrence and his new book the class of '74 but another part reflects john's own journey and a sort of completing of the circle for him that goes back in the 1970s john earned a ph.d. of history at berkeley. but instead of pursuing a career in academia he ended up on capitol hill as a staff member in the house of representatives. he spent 38 years there. really initially for number of years for congressman george miller california and then the final eight years he served as chief of staff to nancy pelosi. when he left the hill a few years ago he return to academic tract teaching at the university of washington california center and writing a book that draws on his long experience in congress. he arrived on the hill with the members of the class

more deaths? mr. president, will congress finally see what the vast majority of americans see? gun owners and nongun owners alike but american gun violence problem isn't going away. unless congress musters up the courage to take it head-on. or -- will congress to continue to give the thought and prayers and then you do absolutely nothing. we with have to act. because once again there was a massacre on american soil. once again it was inside a school once again american children were gunned down. we keep living through a night mare of gun violence that repeats itself in schools, movie theaters, churches -- nightclubs, concerts and every single day on the streets of the cities -- around this country -- sandy hook, aurora, charleston, san bernardino, orlando, las vegas,s, sutherland springs, and most recently parkland, florida. policemr. president, we can help this. weav have the power to help stop this. the question is whether congress has the political will to do it. whether this institution will finally put families first, our children first and stand up to the gun manufacturers an

but at the time congress has the power to sort of insist upon this. johnson eventually did fire stanton, because it was the only way he could get his perspective on the 14th amendment out there and enforced. 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

americans in every part of this country are asking at their kitchen tables right now. is congress finally going to do anything meaningful about gun violence? when will enough be enough? what will it take for this body to move beyond the same talking points that here after every mass shooting and do something to prevent more deaths? mr. president, will congress finally see what the vast majority of americans he, gun owners and non- gun owners alike but will their gun violence problems it's not going away unless congress musters up the courage to take it head-on or will congress continue to give the lip service of thought and prayers and do absolutely nothing. we have to ask because once again there was a massacre on american soil. once again it was in side a school and once again american children were gunned down. we keep living through a nightmare of gun violence that repeats itself in schools, movie theaters, churches, nightclubs, concerts and every single day on this street of thehe city's in every state around this country. sandy hook, aurora, charleston, san bernardino orlando, las v

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 matter who you vote for, nothing ever changes. congress proved that

democrats are clear. our country, our congress and our leaders need to figure out how dreamers get to live in the country they grew up in, the country they love, the country that has invested so much in them and received so much from them. don't fall into a false sense of security. the courts didn't settle this or give us a permanent solution. they just gave lawmakers a convenient excuse for inaction and i'm not buying it and neither should you. because also in the spending bill there are likely to be billions of dollars for deportation, detention, breaking up families, and breaking down doors in neighborhoods across the country. that is why our letter says, we do not only want a clean dream act included in the omnibus but we want to reduce funding appropriated to d.h.s.'s detention and deportation machine. specifically funding for detention beds, deportation i.c.e. perating under or c.b.p. and we oppose any funding that has construction of walls or fencing at the southern border. we should allocate border resources to modernize the infrastructure and technology at our ports of entran

are. if congress wants to regulate in this brave new world, it should do it. >> justice ginsburg, a couple of responses. first, i agree that the court is construing a statute passed in 1986 and anded squeptly. we think the court should leave things as they are with the instrument that congress authorized operating on a person and requiring that person to produce information regardless of whether it's stored overseas. microsoft here made a unilateral decision to move information overseas. nothing in the law requires it. nothing in the law prohibits it. what congress did was act against a backdrop of law dating back to this court's society decision in 1958 and running through the aerospacial decision in 1987 under which the basic rule of domestic and international law is that when i court has personal jurisdiction over an individual before the court and issues an order requiring disclosure of information, that person must comply with the order regardless of where it has chosen to store the information over which it has control. >> in that sense, is it correct to say that the parties a

institute and the ford the theater society. 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

the senate. it is likely if congress does do anything, it will be likely in whatever comes out of congress. the key battleground area will be the age limit proposal we were talking about and how much do you expand the universe of people subject to those background checks. that is -- viewers may remember bill aftermanchin sandy hook. that is probably where the real battleground is at this point. the president had suggested support for that in some of these white house meetings. where we probably will not go -- we are probably not going to see something, in the end, on an assault weapons ban. host: ultimately, do you think we will see something? because we have been down this road before in congress after shootings. do you think this will actually have some type of result? guest: we all know congress can be stalled and sometimes does not act unless there is pressure. there is a significant amount of pressure, not only from the nra but from students protesting. but a bill that passed the house in december -- that is the biggest chance of having something that will pass. it has stalle

europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. china's national congress votes to eliminate presidential term limits paving the way for street in paying to stay in power and definitely. some of them are kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the death toll rises in syria's east and the government continues to pound the rebel held enclave. there not sending missiles up and i believe that. donald trump says north korea has promised to halt its missile tests ahead of his meeting with kim jong un plus. on record reporting from antarctica a grid journey south toward where all three broke out from the remotest waters although. china's national people's congress has just voted to abolish the term limits for the president and vice president. to change the constitution paves the way for xi jinping to remain in office beyond twenty twenty three leaders are currently restricted to serving a maximum of two five year term cisco straits or china correspondent agent bradley joins us live from just outside the national people's congress in beijing's waging the vote

lincoln prize. and his latest book, lincoln and congress, which treats the sometimes contentious, sometimes cooperative relationship between lincoln and capitol hill, although perhaps more cooperative than we sometimes think. lincoln, according to bill's work, really only had one important veto to deliver during his time as president. i can tell you that bill writes with intelligence, great insight, solid judgment, good humor, and popular appeal. bill has an active web presence, and if you enter his name, he comes up in a number of predictable categories for, you know, for his affiliations, for himself. as well as these three, which i found interesting. historians of the american civil war will turn him up, american war historians and one category called living people will turn him up. i'm so glad bill is alive to share today's program with us. and that we are alive to hear him. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming bill harris. >> good morning, again. it is an honor the deliver a paper for lincoln on the stage of the historic theater. it is also an honor to be introd

action by congress on gun policy and school safety. speakers included high school students, nancy pelosi, chuck and johnbernie sanders lewis. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. we want change. we want change. we want change. [chanting "we want change"] [inaudible] change"] "we want >> we want to begin the program, thank you so much. can everybody hear me, how is everyone doing today? are you ready to stand up for change? we will bring up a senior at blair high school to kick off our program. applause]nd students.rning and i am a senior at montgomery blair high school. i am a member of students were gun control. organization a week after the parkland shooting to be a voice instructor -- for stricter gun control. good morning students. to an ipo senior at montgomery blair high school in a proud member of montgomery county students were gun control. we founded this organization a week after the part when shooting to give students a voice in the fight for stricter gun control. we have proven that now is the time for change. we have been empowered by each and every one of you that h

. speaker, today we in congress have the honor of recognizing an outstanding leader and esteemed colleague, ongresswoman marcy kaptur. we have the esteemed honor of recognizing marcy kaptur as she becomes the longest serving woman in the history of the ouse of representatives. and it's not just about the longevity of her service but the quality of her leadership in the house of representatives in so many ways. it's fitting that we should recognize her outstanding leadership during women's history month. thank you for giving us the privilege of doing that. and i know that the people of ohio and our colleagues from ohio here take great pride and their association with marcy kaptur as with the rest of us in honor to call her colleague. she has left her mark in so many ways. she is the first woman ever to be assigned to serve on the subcommittee of appropriations on defense, and in addition to protecting the american people, honoring our first responsibility to protect and defend, she was the champion for the world war ii memorial and a determined defender of all who served there and

congress and the white house. areas wheremiliar we have often seen discord. in this time, we are seeing more heightened discord and tension, tension between the white house and federal agencies and federal law enforcement, tension between the white house and the press and the press and the white house, tension between the white house and the courts, and if you believe the press, tension within the white house and this is all elevated. tons of anger and discord that plays out on a daily basis. it is not coming in waves. it is nonstop, 100 miles an hour, tension and discord. education policy traditionally has been somewhat immune from political discord and partisanship. it has traditionally been an island of bipartisan policymaking focused on the needs of the country and the needs of students. it is starting to feel like that is beginning to change. had 85 senators support the bipartisan every presidentcceeds act, obama signed it in december of 2015 and call it a christmas miracle. chairman alexander and ranking member murray singing each other praises, that was only a little over two yea

congress calling for legislation that includes president trump's border wall. joining us for reaction is the sheriff who spearheaded that letter, bristol county, massachusetts, sheriff tom hodgson, and also a former deputy press secretaryol for the dnc in miami. jose, i thought you were goinghe to be here in studio with me, now you are in miami.u it's good to see both of you. let's talk about this issue, it is a sticky issue, a controversial issue, sheriff, let's start with you. 380 sheriffs -- there are a lot of sheriffs across the country, but that is not an insignificant number, saying the border wall is necessary. we have got congressmen and senators in washington who say sensors and partial double fencing and other technology, drones, that will be enough, along with additional manpower to secure this border. >> first of all, these are people who spend their time, little idea of what the terrain is and so forth. it's going to be -- there are going to be some cyber things, t there will be some, you know, visual posts. the wall is absolutely critical to keep people from get

suspended by the courts. what is your message to congress that seems so badly to want to fix democrat and they haven't done anything to do it? >> it's 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 and principles that the majority of members of congress have supported in the past. they have claimed to want to fix daca. the president laid out a pathway and exact way to do that. they failed to address it. we're hopeful that congress will do their jobs, show up and get something done and fix this problem, not kick it down the road and not continue to ignore it. >> when it eventually gets to the court, i suspect a favorable ruling. then what happens? >> if we need to go to the supreme court, we feel confident there as well. again, this is -- it's congress's job to pass laws. the president has laid out what he wants to see. 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 actually come t

prospect for passage in this congress, before moving on to a discussion around implementation and oversight. there's been discussion about that already. also talking a little bit about the department of education's capacity here at the federal level to conduct oversight before talking about a few different critical topics that don't really fit neatly into any of these categories. before jumping into the substance, i wanted to describe a little bit sort of for context setting the political context here in washington, d.c. so i have this slide here, sort of an image, a symbol of kind of what we're dealing with here which is a stormy political environment in d.c. with sort of dark clouds and it may be sort of more appropriately described as windswept, sort of given the windmageddon we dealt with here last week. but generally a stormy environment. and there is much discord and sort of a trust deficit that we are experiencing here broadly in the political arena. and i think that is very evident between parties certainly, between republicans and democrats, and also between congress and

relations with his cabinet and congress, with african-americans and with abolitionists. edwin stanton and his role in the aftermath of abraham lincoln's assassination. >> for the 21st annual symposium and ford's theater society. next, william harris, author of lincoln and congress, talks about the congress of 1862 and its actions to have president lincoln's secretary of state, william stewart, replaced. this is about 45 minutes. >> north carolina state university, a native of alabama and earned his ba degree at alabama in 1954. he remembers seeing legendary alabamact football coach bear bryan at the possible pub on campus but said he was always too intimidated to approach the legendary coach. he earned his doctorate in 1965e his teaching took him to millsaps college and north carolina state where he served as chair of the department of history. whether administering, teaching or both, his scharship has never stalled, author of 14 books, numerous articles and essays on civil war. notable among them with charity for all, lincoln and the restoration of the union, which won the second pla

cosponsoring bills that were enacted into law's in the last congress and she is a champion of the u.s.-israel alliance. klobuchar.ome amy thank you. here in thise discussion with you and some of our friends. >> exact way. .- exactly so many of our friends. you have been a supporter of the relationship. talk about why the issue is important to you. >> a lot of it has to do with home. we have some great minnesota people here and we are excited about that and it also has to do with israel's position in the inld, a beacon of democracy a really tough, if not incomparably tough neighborhood. i talk to people at home and they see it that way. if they are not jewish, they see the importance of the friendship and, if they are, they have had four jewish senators out of minnesota and we have a powerful community, despite our scandinavian reputation and four of the five members from the gold medal curling team were from our tape. i would like to bring that up. this community has me so interested in this. it brought me to israel when i was in the senate. i was the district attorney and remembered

with family needed upgrades. we look forward to working with congress on additional needs we have. i will say that it is didrtunate that congress not listen to the men and women of vhs. they tell us how and where to build the wall, and they will continue to work with us to tell us where the wall is needed and how it is needed. we also will continue to work with congress to close the dangerous loopholes that the president has mentioned many times and to continue to increase our overall security. and we think those in congress who support the department of homeland security, i will continue to make myself available to them. but we must fund the department and give it's the tools and resources they need that the

in front of congress and in print, he advocated them all of his life. with every resource he had. 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

congress. live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer : the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal father, teach us how to praise you at all times, constantly glorifying your name and expressing gratitude for your prevailing providence. thank you for sustaining our lawmakers as they strive to fulfill your purposes for our nation and world. set them free from all fears, reminding them that you have been their help in the past and should be their hope for the years to come. forgive us all for duties unperformed, promptings disobeyed, and beckonings ignored. we pray in your merciful name. amen. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., march 20, 2018. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, o

have endured. we pray for your guidance upon our president, his cabinet, the members of our congress, and each and every person within our government. we pray for your truth and love and peace to reign in our country and in our world, in jesus name, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. tellson: pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval. journal. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the journal stands approved. mr. thompson: mr. speaker. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition. mr. thompson: i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and make a point of order a quorum is not present. the speaker: pursuant to clause 8 of rule

unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to by your cable or satellite provider. each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic sites around the country. the national archive center for legislative archives in washington, d.c. houses the popular political cartoons from the early 20th century. clifford berryman's work is still relevant 100 years later and is featured in the journal of the white house historical association. we take a look at mr. berryman's cartoons with martha grove and jessie kratz. >> clifford berryman was one of the most renowned political cartoonists during the first part of the 20th century. 100 years ago in washington, d.c. most people would have known his name or been familiar with his artwork. he was born in a small town in kentucky in 1869. he was a self-taught artist. when he was 17, he moved to washington, d.c. and took a job at the u.s. patent office. political cartooning continued to be his passion and he submitted two drawin

like to proceed given the funding we have been provided by congress and the president. we want to tell you what we are doing and what we see as the way ahead. without the president and the administration's leadership, the funding for these projects would not be possible. most of you are familiar with the prototypes built at a time asa in san diego diego. mesa in. san we learned a lot from that process. diego, we are looking at 14 miles of the border wall, getting rid of old, dilapidated steelg mass in favor of a wall. we are replacing 45 miles of barrier in san diego. are on schedule to build a new portable that replaces two miles of pedestrian barrier. we identified the need back in 2009. in 2017, the administration secured enough funding for its construction but also to build it at a 30 foot height. feet ofn track to 20 border wall in new mexico and the groundbreaking is scheduled for early april. we have ordered new miles of border wall in el paso, texas, m.d. rio grande, valley , we have--in our passage, texas and -- we plan to replace 47 miles of dilapidated border fencing in vari

worth saving by congress. 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 restrictio

. [applause] mr. gray: and provost john davis. [applause] mr. gray: and so many members of congress and distinguished guests. [applause] mr. gray: today, we are adding new firsts to the national collection. the suit, gavel, and other important objects from the swearing-in ceremony where representative nancy pelosi became the first woman speaker of the house of representatives. here at the national museum, we preserve and share a collection of national treasures on behalf of the american people, and indeed the world, to demonstrate the power of american history, to help us make sense of this complicated present, and shape a more humane future. and it is the future that matters. ultimately, history is important not because it is about the past. history matters because it helps us understand where we have come from and where we should be going. today, there is no more important mission than working to bring the nation together around the very things that are valued by americans. fundamental american ideals and ideas like democracy, opportunity, freedom that join us as a people. behind

latest book opting out of congress, partisan polarization and the decline of moderate candidates. her work shows the ideological moderates are less likely to run for and remain in congress and those of the extreme. the future of the bipartisanship in congress will depend on the reformer's encouragement of moderate congressional candidates. following the remarks he will have a brief question and answer period. please welcome daniel thompson. [applause] i want to thank you for helping to make all of the arrangements and we are really glad to be here. i'm going to be presenting from my book manuscript that came out this year opting out of congress, the decline of moderate candidates. just about a decade ago after the 2006 congressional election "time" magazine suggested the ideological center was the new place to be a. but the numbers tell a different story. since then, virtually all of the moderate and congressional office had retired. one of the more recent examples is the cochair of the group of moderate republicans who announced her retirement last year citing the increased pola

rest of the system down. congress passed a huge bailout for to keep this from happening again congress decided to put a small number of being that controlled more than $50 billion in assets this is about 40 of the large banks in the country to put them on a watch list. they would be on a tough federal oversight and subject to the rules to stop them from bringing down the economy again. a small bank in massachusetts would be one way into a bank with offices around the country and around the globe would get a much closer look at. if the bill passes, washington would scrap those rules. 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 oversight as a tiny bank in adams massachusetts. that is great if you are a quarter of a trillion dollarr bank but it's not great for anyone else. it isn't about restrictions on acid measures and appropriate leverage ratios and proprietary trading. it's about keeping hard-working from getting crushed by another fi

the last congress. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from the great state of minnesota senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you. it's great to be here with this intimate discussion with you with just a few thousands of our friends. >> you have been a consistent supporter of the u.s.-israel relationship. talk about why that issue is so important to you. >> a lot of it has to do with home. i know we have some great minnesota aipac people here. we're excited about that. this is the democracy, a beacon of democracy in what's really tough, if not a tough neighborhood. if they're not jewish they see the important of that relationship. the fact that four of the five members of the gold medal winning u.s. curling team were from our state. i would like to bring that up. their daughter was doing the homework at the kitchen table. if it wasn't for the alert system, she would have been dead. hearing their story reminded me of the work i did as prosecutor and when we would be in these high crime neighborhoods on how people would be terrified every single day of what was going

political parties. he discovered when he entered congress that part of the constitution hadn't worked and he ended up founding the republican party alongside thomas jefferson to fight alexander hamilton in federalist party and that became a completely different world for him to sit around and debate at a high level. he discovered he needed a part of the newspaper. he needed to accuse the other side of fake news. you know, he needed to create national political organizations of the kind yet claimed would preclude from ever coming into existence and he believed he was doing this in a second life because the threat that they meant to the united states was nothing less than the death of the republic and death of the constitution. that was how serious the threat had to be to justify breaking for the deeply to political parties were terrible in crate a political party that would end all political parties. which did for some period of time. in his last life 16 years of u.s. v. he was president for eight years and did not 16 year. he tried to do what he had done for the constitution. that is

georgia pastor white primer struck down a a federal court, and have special election in congress and a special district in congress. the black electorate really turns out for the special primary because the white primary were turned aside from black voters in historical ward 3a atalanta show up to vote and they are able to put a liberal female lawyer in congress from atlanta. she was not the choice of the conservative democratic party machine, but she won. the power of the black vote had been demonstrated. this leads to a hard push back in georgia politics and other parts of the south to ensure that you couldn't keep a white primary, you would find other means to minimize the impact of black vote. threat the 1950s and 1960s this resulted active push back and often violence against people who sought to register blacks to vote. if you look at the freedom riders in the early 1960s who are going through the south in and effort, these are progressive blacks and whites writing in the south on buses to participate to to in efforts to mobilize and register black voters in mississippi. the buse

, that congress shall have power to do there were. let me repeat article one section eight states it is congress that has the power to declare war. congress gave the power to authorize terry conflicts that gives the account to the people a not to the president or congress but that is the issue we are debating today.oo mr. president, with the democratic and republican administration has abdicated that constitutional rule to authorize war the time is long overdue. that is constitutional authority and that is what today is about and that is why i am and 14 cosponsors of this revolution, that is what we are doing with the senate .resolution 54. what we are planning is if congress wants to go to war in yemen or anything else, vote. venture constitutional sponsor ability. and then in the past democratic president. the president but what does that mean in the text but what the hostility mean? but we are not really engaged scribed war in yemen. we really are not engaged. so please tell that to the people of yemen's homes and lives by weapons march made in the usa dropped five planes to be kille

get the people's business done in congress these days? why does it seem so difficult that even when we have a vast consensus on what to do about a particular issue, we still can't get it done? why sit that the approval rating of our institution, according to the most recent rasmussen poly, is at 15%. which i think most people would agree is a pretty dismal showing for the people's congress. and here in the people's house. well, i want to talk about this problem in some historical and constitutional perspective and hope that it opens up some roots of thinking and feeling that ght enable us to transcend some of the paralysis that now besets the united states congress. of course the simple explanation that is often given cloak wally is that everybody in washington is -- that is often given co-loke weallly that serve so divided nothing happens. this explanation, although it turns out to be wrong, of course has a long lineage to it. in fact, the funders wrote very widely at the time our constitution was adopted about the problem of faction. and they said, if you look at james madison in