congress or the american people that congress is a mess. pollsess pulls poorly -- poorly and this trend is bipartisan. democrats and republicans, most assignment a failing grade. over the past decade, congress has not once approved in approval rating over 30%. congress's 990's, approval ratings were in the 40's and the 50's. today, they are in the teens and 20's. once thought to be the great repository of america's republican principles, it is now a broken branch. why has congress come to this point? martha causes? has anything changed since trump's election and the democratic takeover of the house? can this state of affairs be changed? to answer this question, we have assembled a distinguished panel of experts on congress with a variety of perspectives and i will introduce them quickly in alphabetical order. i will introduce them all so we can launch into their remarks. our first speaker is catherine pearson, associate professor of political science at the university of minnesota. she worked for several years as an assistant to several members of congress. party the author of dis

congress and the road to civil war." professor freeman argues that the country has been more polarized in the past than it is now. >> my name is jane campbell, and i have the honor of being the ceo of the united states capitol historical society, a position that i took in february. so it is new for me and this is my first salute to congress. i am so glad that you're all here with me. and so, the first thing is for us to all rise as the capitol police ceremonial unit will present our nation's colors. please rise. >> forward march. forward march. present. >> now, please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. 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. thank you. thank you very much. you may be seated. i am honored tonight, as we gather to salute the 116th congress, to present to you one of the most consequential political figures of our time, a woman who makes history every single day. nancy pelosi is the 52nd speaker of the house of represe

historical society host an event celebrating the hundred and 16th congress. which started in january. after that house speaker house speaker nancy pelosi leading an event of the passage of the 19th amendment. from the u.s. capital historical society. a celebration of the hundred and 16th congress. we hear from joanne freeman and house speaker nancy pelosi. this is one hour. >>> my name is jane campbell and i am the ceo of the united states capital historical society. a position that i took an of february. it is new for me, and this is my first salute to congress. i am so glad the you are all here with me. and so, the first thing is for us to all rise as the capital police ceremonial unit will present our nation's colors. please rise. >> please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. 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. thank you. >> thank you. very much , you may be seated. i am honored tonight , as we gather to salute the 116th congress. to

hosted an event celebrating the 115th congress, which started their two year term in january. participants included house >> she discusses her book, "the field of blood: violence in congress and the road to the civil war." they argue the country is more polarized in the past them now. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] campbell and jane i have the honor of being the ceo of the united states capital historical society, a position i took in february. so it is new for me and this is my first salute to congress. i am so glad that you are all here with me. and so, the first thing is for as the ceremonial unit will present our nation's colors. please rise. >> forward much. -- march. forward march. >> now, please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance did i pledge allegiance to the flag -- the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisibl

"washington journal," we took a look at the august recess and members of congress spending time with constituents. reporters to with see what they are doing during the summer period. we also heard from the congressional management on the track record of members of congress meeting with constituents. we will start by hearing from viewers on top issues for their members of congress. i don't talk to them directly but i think our foreign policy has to be changed and i think we have to focus on that issue because our country is labeled as a country that does not keep its promises to any country's health. host: john in new york, democrats line. you're n.e.c. top issue for your member of congress. caller: hi, good morning. i've been pretty active for several years visiting veterans in the veterans house near me. and they're very frustrated with the fact seniority care and they had to speak up about it. but all i got out of it was retaliation. i've contacted my congressman and senators about it and i didn't get anywhere, you know. host: when you say you didn't get anywhere, elaborate on

members of congress spend time with constituents. we checked in with the number of reporters to find out with the florida and pennsylvania delegations are doing during the summer work period. congressionalthe management foundation on the track record of members of congress meeting with their constituents. focus on that issue because our country is labeled as a country that does not keep its promises to any country's health. host: john in new york, democrats line. you're n.e.c. top issue for your member of congress. caller: hi, good morning. i've been pretty active for several years visiting veterans in the veterans house near me. and they're very frustrated with the fact seniority care and they had to speak up about it. but all i got out of it was retaliation. i've contacted my congressman and senators about it and i didn't get anywhere, you know. host: when you say you didn't get anywhere, elaborate on that, how did that conversation go? caller: like the last call i got, oh, they're going to look into it. nd turned out that nothing happened. they passed the buck. they passed it on o

members of congress so that we can begin to fix what is broken here in washington politics. before i introduce our first panel, i'd like to explain why we organized today's hearing. in the 2016 election, the american people made a resounding call to drain the swamp that is modern washington. and sadly this is a bipartisan problem. the american people have lost confidence in washington, and especially in congress. enmeshed in backroom deals and broken promises, our capital has too often become a political playground for the powerful and the well-connected, for members of the permanent political class looking to accumulate more and more power at the expense of american taxpayers. as part of his promise to drain the swamp, president trump strongly endorsed and campaigned on passing congressional term limits. though our founders didn't include term limits in the onstitution, they feared the creation of a permanent political class that existed parallel to, rather than within, american society. as benjamin franklin observed, "in free governments, the rulers are the servants, and the people

congress are back in their districts and states hearing from their constituents on issues important to them weather it be the economy, immigration, health care, or other topics. maybe you attended a town hall and told them directly what your issues are, but if you haven't, what would you have them focus on? that will be the focus of today's program as we hear from you on the top issue or issues for your member of congress. here is how you can let us know. if you want to call us and tell us those issues, 202-748-8000 for republicans. 202-748-8001 for democrats and independents, 202-748-8002. if you want to post on social media, you can do so at it or @cspanwj and on our -- you can orso at twitter at @cspanwj our facebook page, facebook.com/cspan. some of the topics being discussed at those meetings. if you go to the website wglt .com, a forum held by rodney davis. infrastructure was one of the top issues. the representative from illinois's 13th district is pushing for passage of the federal highway bill. about 80% of the construction project on the interstates that may back you up in tr

start at the beginning mere hours after the tragedy of 9/11 is congress debated drafted and ultimately by an overwhelming majority voted to enact the 2001 authorization for the use of military force against those who'd planned, authorized, committed or aided the september 11 attacks. or those who'd offered these persons safe harbor. nearly 20 years later one sentence, the key provision at the heart of this joint resolution continues to provide the legal foundation for virtually every action taken by three successive administrations prosecuting a global war on terrorism. that's everything from the invasion of afghanistan in 2001 to the downing of a syrian airplane in 2017 and everything in between. from get mode to secret try funerals and its extraordinary rendition in some an estimated 41 military operations in 19 countries. now some within the trump administration may be looking to link the islamic republic of iran to the underlying logic of the Ãband as the title of this event suggests we will certainly get to that matter but as i take my seat stephen perhaps you'd like to provide s

the madison council which is the support arm of the labor of congress a number of years ago led by jim billington. i said for 28 years for the library congress and retired a couple years ago. he told me that the national book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked jim billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a national book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. he came up with the idea of how to put together national book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. so he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a co-chair of the event, i've done that for ten years or so. it is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the coun

proclamation, you are taking away somebody's property. he goes on to say, i don't say congress might not with impropriety pass a law on the point such as the general proclaimed. i do not say i might not as a member of congress vote for it. what i object to is i as zeesident shall expressly sei and exercise the permanent legislative functions of the government. here he is saying morally, he agrees with fremont. that is what he would like. in congress, he might and probably would vote for such a measure. but that is not his position. it is not the position of fremont. saying as commander-in-chief, he can't do that because he is stepping in and taking over powers that belong to congress. there are a couple of ways to look at this letter. one, we talked about how a big question originally what degree does the civil war era shape the constitution, or the constitution shape the civil war era? lincoln was specifically stating that the constitution, at least his understanding of it, is shaping his actions. it limits what he can do. also there is the matter of what he does later in the war. when

members of congress. mostly our women members of congress. we salute our cochairs of the bipartisan house caucus for women's issues, congresswoman brenda lawrence and congresswoman debbie lesco, and let us welcome a trail blazing force for women in journalism and her daughter rebecca an outstanding journalist in her own right writing about women. as many of the women members know, the lindy bogs room in this room, the only room named for a woman in the capitol is named for her lovely mother and rebecca's grandmother lindy boggs. let's thank lindy boggs for her leadership. further acknowledgments we thank the bipartisan women's suffrage centennial commission for their leadership to educate the american public about the suffrage movement. we're honored to have the chair of the committee, senator barbara mikulski, the vice chair, and the executive director with us today. let us acknowledge them and to each and every one of you. i could name you all for the contributions you make for expanding freedom and opportunity in our country, especially today as we acknowledge that for women. how wonde

distinguished panel and i very much look forward to hearing your ideas on how congress and this subcommittee can help the court solve these problems. i also want to hear any concerns you might have and i am especially interested in your thoughts on the constitutional principles at play when congress establishes rules for judicial conduct and procedure. i hope you will be willing to work with us as we move forward from this hearing. thank you and i look forward to your testimony. >> it is now my pleasure to recognize the ranking member of the subcommittee. the gentleman from alabama mississippi. >> thank you to all of our distinguished witnesses to come saturday. i've seen firsthand the importance of the judiciary and i'm proud of the subcommittee will help ensure the structure tools and resources to efficiently and effectively. people all across the united states turned to the federal court system to settle disputes and adjudicate cases fair and impartial manner. our courts deal with intricate issues and complex law to reach a decision based on the merits of the case and it's important that the

effectiveness of the 160th congress -- 116th congress. the american political science association hosted this 90 minute event. association, live coverage here >> thanks to all of you for coming to hear about whether or not congress is still dysfunctional. a fulle will provide background of what's going on on capitol hill. it is no secret to political scientists, nor to the members of congress or the american people, that congress is a mess. congress routinely polls poorly and this trend is bipartisan. republicanscrats or control congress, most assigned us a failing grade. over the past decade, congress has not once approved in approval rating over 30%. during the 1990's, congress's approval ratings were in the 40's and the 50's. today, they are in the teens and 20's. once thought to be the great repository of america's republican principles, it is now a broken branch. why has congress come to this point? what are the causes of congress's dysfunction? has anything changed since trump's election and the democratic takeover of the house? can this state of affairs be changed? ken congress be

congress. the house voted not to impeach which we are going to hear more about later on but it doesn't mean that they will stop trying. so to get a better view of the situation and what is going on right now with the threats of impeachment, today they will tell us a little bit about that and share some information. serving as the united at the tourney committees appointed by president ronald reagan from 86 to 90 and a member of congress from 1995 to 2003. a member of the house judiciary committee and on the oversight committee for six years he served as an official and was the first member of congress to call for the impeachment in the senate trial in 1999 and presently a private practice attorney in atlanta since leaving the house. plus he was a libertarian party nominee for president in 2008 so we would like to hear from him or ask you to give him a warm welcome, former congressman. [applause] thank you. i always appreciate the invitations to come to freedom fest and speak and probably more important all of whom have a deep and abiding love for liberty and who are always in the front

israel to ban the entry of two members of congress to israel. freshman democratic congresswomen ilhan omar and rashida talib. we'll ask the prez kjs candidates about that. our first guest tonight beto o'rourke restarted his pr presidential campaign tonight. it was a deeply personal speech. beto o'rourke reminisced about passing the spot where he was speaking today back when he was a high school kid on his way to el paso high every day. and you could hear the el paso high band practicing in the background during this speech. the only policy prescription beto o'rourke outlined in today's speech was how to reduce gun violence in america, how to stop mass murderers from using the weapons of war to kill as many people as they possibly can. that was the policy beto o'rourke concentrated on today because for him on that issue the policy and the personal are now inseparable. >> flying home from las vegas, nevada, when i got the news, young gentleman named chris walks up to me and says i'm flying back to el paso as well because i just learned that my mother rosemary has been shot of that wal-m

reportedly boasted about, quote, planning to play chicken with congress, unquote, by furloughing or taking hostage 150 employees of ofm. this is not a game. these are real lives at stake. opm's blanket refusal to provide the information the committee has requested is unacceptable. opm offered additional records just this week. it's ironic that the new records make reference to the documents we've been asking for without providing them. the latest documents convince us even more that the administration is attempting an end run in order to eliminate more than 130 years of merit-based nonpartisan civil servant. second, the committee is investigating the abrupt decision to abandon the long-term plan to move the fbi headquarters to a suburban location and replace it with a costly plan to keep pennsylvania avenue location, demolish the j. edgar hoover facility, and construct a new one on the same site. in order to make that pivot, the administration had to abandon some of the compelling criteria that dominated this well over eight years. consolidation of the workforce, 21st century forensics and

represent. >> david rubenstein: the library of congress gets most of its money from the federal government congress rep appropriations. like many organizations, the smithsonian and that national archives the money that comes from the federal government is not really adequate to deal with all of the needs throughout the organization involved so these organizations build support ar arms. the smithsonian has them in the national park service have them all of these organizations try to supplement with the federal government. the madison counsel was to be the supplementary arm of the library of congress. it was really started off a large gift by john clooney many years ago. now other people are involved in supporting the library of on chris with gifts. the last number of years i served as chairman of the madison counsel. >> to fund raise, do you give gifts yourself. >> david rubenstein: i also fund raise, we meet twice a year and we have a number of people from all over the country who donate actually sometimes they give part of their collections from the library of congress. they al

motive and rises above concerns that the house or the congress has taken one action and we think they are not. they are not taking the action you can delineate from their statements from authorizing resolutions themselves. there is something else completely going on. many of the cases make it very clear you can inquire into what the real object is and what the legislative purpose is. >> is that the real object as distinguished from no other object? in other words, they put something up as just a sham. >> i think the court in watkins is clear about this. the court is obligated to look carefully especially in a case that at least rises separation of powers. >> what the president is proconceded against in his official capacity, right? >> we cannot ignore this when subpoenas are targeting the president because he is president. >> how can the separation of powers be separated with his being in the individual? >> i think your point is that really doesn't matter and it is still the president's papers. >> that is correct. when you look in some of the comments that the chairs of the commi

to israel on orders from president trump to u.s. democratic congress women are bird from visiting the country after tweets by presidents donald trump prime minister netanyahu says the women's visit would negate the legitimacy of israel also coming up free to go drones or will release the iranian oil tanker it sees last month and that's despite an 11th hour plea from u.s. authorities who wanted the vessels detention extended. and a nother miracle on the hudson this time in a cornfield near moscow a pilot is healed as a hero after a flock of seagulls forced him to crash land soon after takeoff. on the rocks thank you so much for your company everyone tonight israel has barred 2 u.s. democratic congress women from entering the country after president donald trump says they should be banned in a tweet prime minister benjamin netanyahu is office is shoot a statement claiming the visit was intended to quote negate the legitimacy of israel representative rashida tal of michigan is a born and bred american of palestinian heritage. omar of minnesota and a grated with her family from somali

threat, and global security architecture? both the report and the presentations we gave in congress were supportive of the -- supported by the john and katherine macarthur foundation. -- weenda for today is will have three presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional nuclear oversight in general, the key findings and recommendations of reports summarizing and assessing them and discussions about what more needs to be done, what initiatives we could pursue as we go further. our first speaker will be the chairman of the board of directors at partnership for secure america, which is a nonprofit founded by former representative lee hamilton. it calls for advance on bipartisanship on critical national security and foreign policy challenges since january 2008. he has also been a private consultant at aks consulting. before that, he was deputy assistant secretary of state for nuclear operations, and has had a lot of impressive positions before that. kingston reef, the director of disarmament and threat reduction policy at the arms control organization. afterwards, the sp

united states urged the head of a foreign power to take action against two democratic congress women, american congress women who are critics of his and the head of that foreign power did just that. and in a truly trumpian twist late today, the president denied having pushed the foreign power, while also seeming to admit that he had. it bears repeating this is certainly not normal, except abnormal is kind of now normal. it's also a classic trump distraction play, a way to turn the media and the public's attention away from yesterday's disastrous stock drop and fears of a recession. so keep that in mind. nevertheless, it is worth looking at what the president just did here because, as we said, it's unprecedented. this concerns two congress women, rashida dlieb and ilhan omar who planned to visit israel. they are as you know critical of israeli policy and she's been criticized by her colleagues and has since a monthly jay zed for using anti-semitic tropes on occasions. they are two of the four non-white female lawmakers whom the president has been attacking repeatedly. >> when you see

congress. i just think it was wrong and disrespectful to the congress no matter what their opinions are. i have disagreed with these two a lot. what i worry about and what is now happening, unfortunately, is that the whole question of the u.s. relationship with israel would begin to be partisan. it could run and into our poli. this is a relationship founded on shared values. to begin to make it a partisan political play is good for nobody. certainly, not for israel. >> charles: i don't think it's good for israel or america. two euro points, many have argued for many years that arguably, israel was our closest ally in the entire world. i think when a lot of folks, and you know as well as anyone else, even the notion by some of anti-semitic views. they could have gone over there with their pop, colleagues. israel reversed their decision. it feels like they are seizing on this moment to politicize this and drive this wedge. >> joe: listen, i agree with you. i have been really hurt and disappointed, sometimes offended by things that congresswoman, omar has said. some of which, have to m

america and arms control association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. i want to take the welcome the c-span audience for joining us. to make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. the report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and arms control association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the nuclear threat, the tools of the trade. that is, how do we identify an account of the threat, and global security nuclear architecture. both the report and the presentations we gave in congress were generously supported by the macarthur foundation. the agenda for today is, we will have three presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional nuclear oversight in general, the key findings and recommendations of the report, summarizing and assessing them, and then a discussion about what more needs to be done, what might b

stand in library of congress he served for 28 years. he retired a few years ago. he told me that the national book festival was something that he needed some help with. it had been started early in 2001. it was an idea really they came from or bush. laura bush asked jim billington around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a national book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. the texas book is full. he said there isn't yet there will be. so we came up with the idea of how to put together a national book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. it turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. so he asked me if i would get involved. i told him i would do so. i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event. i did that now for maybe ten years or so. it's very important to me that the book festival does well and i enjoyed a great deal. it's really great gift for the country to have this national book festival as you probably know we can about 200,000 people coming on the day o

to washington policymaking for all to see bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. a lot has changed in 40 years but today the big idea is more relevant than ever. on television and online c-span is your unfiltered view of government so you can make up your own mind, brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> now discussion on congressional oversight of nuclear security and arms control. speakers included representatives from the arms control association. the hudson institute in washington dc hosted this to our event. >> thank you. let's begin. i want to welcome everybody to hudson. i am the director of the center for political military knowledge. today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the nuclear security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the arms control association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. i want to welcome the c-span audience for joining us. to make everything easier if people can silence a

precludes requirement of motive, and raises -- rises above concerns that the house or the congress has taken one action and we think they are not. they are not taking the action you can delineate from their statements from authorizing resolutions or from the piece of the subpoena themselves. there is something else completely going on. you cannot inquire into a secret motive in that sense, but many of the cases make it very clear you can inquire into what the real object is and what the legislative purpose is. >> is that the real object as distinguished from no other object? in other words, they put something up as just a sham. >> no. i think the court in watkins is very clear about this. even though it is a delegated inquiry, the court is obligated to look carefully especially in a case that at least rises separation of powers concerns. isseparation of powers, that preceded in his official capacity. is that right? >> the department of justice is right. we cannot ignore this when subpoenas are targeting the president because he is president. >> how is it -- how can the separation of po

consequences. like emily barber. she was a teacher, she sent a petition to congress. woman, shethat as a has to pay equal taxes with men, but as a non-voter has no voice and how those tax dollars are spent. that withr states superior capabilities for teaching and governing schools -- i love to point out that this petition was sent to congress in 1879. 140 years ago this year, women were already arguing they needed the vote to press forward with equal wages. of course, as a wage earning barber,omen like emily from their working experience, it was clear how vulnerable women were without the vote. one of the other ways a lot of women came to ultimately fight for their right to vote was engagement through other reform issues. lots of women were engaged in the antislavery movement, the , as well asovement other educational, public health, and social reforms. one of the most important endorsements came from the christian temperance union in 1881. they were the largest women's organization at the time. here fromis petition the women christians temperance union that argues that the ballot i

he wasn't elected the markets would have crashed. earlier today he shed two members of congress shouldn't be allowed to visit israel. the shocking part is when the israel prime minister stopped them. meanwhile, about eight miles from this studio citizens are forced to wait in long lines in the hot sun for bottled water to replace the poison in their water pipes after the government ignored them for years. all a part of "the 11th hour" just getting underway on this thursday night. good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this is day 938 of the trump administration and another of the norms of behavior in the world fell away today. it wasn't shocking that donald trump asked israel to turn away two members of congress that wanted to visit israel. he wrote this about the congresswomen. it would show great weakness if israel allowed rep omar askand tlaib. but netanyahu gave in and gave way to the american president. israel said they would not be allowing the congresswomen into their country. netanyahu wrote as a vibrant and free democracy israel is open to any cri

have crashed. earlier today he said two member of congress shouldn't be allowed to visit israel. the shocking part is when the israeli prime minister gave in and stopped the two americans, quickly taking its place near the top of the list of things we've never seen or imagined before. >>> meanwhile, about 8 miles from this studs yo citizens are faced to wait in long lines in the hot sun for bottled water to replace the poison that's in their water pipes after their government ignored them for years. it's all part of "the 11th hour" just getting under way on this thursday night. >>> well, good evening to you once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this was 938 of the trump administration and another of the norms of behavior in the world fell away today. it wasn't shocking that donald trump asked israel to turn away two members of congress who wanted to visit israel. he wrote this about congress wn ilhan omar and rashida talib. quote, it would show great weakness if israel allowed rep omar and rep talib to visit. again, that part wasn't the surprise. it was a genuin

anything-- it has been on display since 1952. before that it lived in the library of congress. for 2 years during world war ii it hunkered down in a deep fault of fort knox kentucky. before that it bounced back and forth between the state department and the patent office. during the centennial back in 1876 it did briefly returned to philadelphia, the city of its birth. there, the grandson of one of the original signers read it publicly as part of this come is 100 day celebration. reports tell us the massive crowd of people there that day burst into cheers at the sight of it. in the first 50 years it traveled more frequently. when the british burned down washington dc during the war of 1812 the thing we called the declaration of independence was not there. it was hiding in virginia. it spent the second half of the american revolution rolled up and stuffed in a linen bag as it accompanied congress from one temporary capital city to another. but folks, i have shocking news. the document that our government has gone to such lengths to preserve and protect over the centuries is not actu

. before that it lived in the library of congress, although for two years doing -- during world war ii, it hunkered down ina deep vault at fort knox kentucky. before that, it bounced back and forth between the state department and the patent office, although during the centennial in 1870 six it briefly returned to philadelphia, the city of its birth. they are, a grandson of one of its original signers read it publicly at part of this country's 100th birthday celebrations. report tell us the massive crowd that they burst into cheers at the site. in its first 50 years, it traveled much more frequently. when the british earned washington dc during the war of 1812, the document we think of as the declaration of independence was not there. it was hiding in leesburg, virginia. the second half of the american revolution years earlier rolled up and stuffed in it accompanied congress from one temporary capital city to another. folks, i have shocking news. the document our government has gone to such lengths to preserve and protect over the centuries, that one, is not actually the declaration of

. women like emily barber. she sent a petition to congress. she was a teacher. she argued that as a wage , she has to pay equal taxes with men, but as a in howr, has no voice those tax dollars are spent. she further states that with acknowledged superior capabilities for teaching and governing schools, she has been obliged to teach for one third of the wages afforded to a male teacher in the same school. i love to point out that this petition was sent to congress in 1879. 140 years ago this year, women were already arguing they needed the vote to press for equal wages. of course, as a wage earning woman, women like emily barber, from their working experience, it was clear how vulnerable women were without the vote. one of the other ways a lot of women came to ultimately fight for their right to vote was through engagement on other reform issues. lots of women were engaged in the antislavery movement, the temperance movement, as well as other educational, public health, and social reforms. one of the most important endorsements that the suffrage movement got came from the women's chr

planned to make that trip with two other members of congress, but israel under pressure from president trump announced she and congresswoman omar would not be allowed to visit. on friday israel said tlaib could visit her grandmother if she limited what she would say and where she could go. the israeli government used my love and desire to see my grandmother to silence me and made my ability to do so contingent upon my signing a letter reflecting how undemocratic and afraid they are of the truth my trip would reveal about what's happening in the state of israel. president trump pounced on the decision not to go. it was a setup he said on twitter. and the only real winner here is tlaib's grandmother, she does not have to see her now. shannon, let me start with you. your sense of how the relationship between the u.s. and israel has changed. the president focusing his ire on these two congress women. it's going to have implications here more broadly. >> right. he's using u.s. relations with israel, so u.s. foreign policy to carry out his domestic agenda frying to make these two w

c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public-policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. representatives ilhan ib held arashida tla press conference after they were denied into israel last week. the muslim lawmakers talked about potential policy responses to israel's decision. they were joined by minnesota residents who'd been affected by travel restrictions. >> thank you, everyone for being here. sorry for being late, there were some traffic detours. i am so glad to be here with my sister rashida today. today we are here to highlight -- before i actually start, we were supposed to have a couple other speakers. are they in the room? would you join us? how are you? >> thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> thank you for speaking up. rep. omar: today we are here to highlight the human cost of the occupation and travel restriction

more informed as a member of congress and as a member of the foreign affairs committee. contrary to many media reports and the statements of the israeli prime minister, i plan to meet directly with members of the knesset and members of palestinian civil society groups, former soldiers, palestine and israel international organizations and united nations officials. leading up to the trip, i met with constituents holding a wide range of views on the conflicts. all the activities on my trip had been done by members of congress in the past. including a nearly identical trip a few years ago led by the same palestinian organization leading this trip. in addition to me and rashida going on the trip, we were going to be joined by stacy plaskett from the virgin islands. the decision to ban me and my colleague, the first two muslim american women elected to congress, is nothing less than an attempt by an ally of the united states to suppress our ability to do our jobs as elected officials. but this is not just about me, netanyahu's decision to deny us entry might be unprecedented for members o

, and private organizations in their communities to succeed. however, congress has never defined the term public charge in the law and that term has not been clearly defined by .thatation will is what changes today with this rule. through the public charge rule, the trump administration is reinforcing the ideals of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. ensuring that immigrants are able to support themselves and become successful here in america. our rule generally prevents aliens who are likely to become a public charge from coming to the united states or remaining here and getting a green card. public charge is now defined in a way that ensures the law is meaningfully enforced and that those were subject to it are self-sufficient. under the rule, a public charge is now defined as an individual who receives one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months in the peregate within any 36-month riod. of twotance, receipt different benefits and one-month counts as two months. itublic charge of inadmissibility is prospective and looks at whether an individual's likely

people who serve the running for congress to continue service to their country was a strong powerful message in the last elections. there is commonality among people who served run pretty deep. this makes sense but we enjoy each other and we got offices as close together as we can in the lottery system and we spent a lot of time together. if someone had a bad day is it fine to go out tonight? do we need the rally? as often happens in women's organizations, having a close working relationship, it makes it a pleasure beyond the normal fundraising gig. >> if i might add before all of the things they are talking about there is an element we have all experienced on the campaign trail when you talk about your background and somebody comes up to you and says you are kind of a badass. >> with a little excitement and interest. our backgrounds seem really unique outside tv shows and in prior careers, it is new for a lot -- i am polite virginian, not so much. but there was an element that it came naturally because this is the reaction people were having to us so it became one of the things peop