that is the judgment that congress made in 2017 and what the cbo told congress. the congress asked what would happen if we repeal the mandate outright and zero out the tax? in the cbo said whether you zero out the tax or repeal the mandate, the effects will be the same, the market will remain stable. if one looks at the amicus briefs filed by the health insurance industry, blue cross, ama, all of those briefs are confirming that that judgment was correct and it turns out that the carrot worked without the stake and brought enough people into the market to allow it to sustain itself. congress is allowed to learn from empirical experience in the world and adjust its policy choices and that is what happened here. justice: the general was asked if the burden of the state was enough to support standing. he had a little bit of conflict representing the state, but you do not. do you think that that burden is sufficient? the paperwork burden essentially? mr. verrilli: i do not because the paperwork burden flows from provisions other than 5000 a, and unless the court were

congress. >> so there's a long period. almost three decades after george henry white leaves congress where there's no african-americans who serve in either the house or the senate. and that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, there's a critical thing going on in the south where african-americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would later be called the great migration. and that begins, oh, depending on which historian you talk to, 1890s, and runs really through world war ii. it picks up momentum around world war i. as there's a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs that have been occupied by men who have now gone off to fight in the war. and you see tens of thousands of african-americans moving northward for the first time, out of the rural south, out of agriculture jobs to industrial jobs in chicago, st. louis, cleveland, pitts

and here is a photo of some of the early women of congress at the start of the 71st congress and so there are lots of them and you can see that they're very businesslike in their attire, but nonetheless, it looks like edith norris has some flowers, but this represents not all of the women who were in congress that congress, but lots of them and you can see they are, nonetheless, being photographed and treated by the press as an entity and how that's going to get played out would change over the next couple of decades as people try to figure out what do we talk about with we talk about women in congress. >> this is an interesting photo because it points out, you can go through this and look at the way the women were elected to congress and in the front row far left is pearl oldfield who had succeeded her husband who was a senior member who passed away and then edith norris rogers and ruth pratt who was elected in her own right and not with any familiar connection. she represented the silk stocking district in new york city and then on the far side here is ruth hannah mccormick of ill

and that election gets thrown to congress to decide. and what happens is the house and the senate are controlled by different political parties and can't come to an agreement as to the house deciding it. so they create a special electoral commission composed of five senators, five representatives and five supreme court justices. and in the results that had come back, there were three southern states that had disputed returns. so what shows up is two different groups. one for tilden, one for hayes. the commission comes back and finds in favor of hayes, awarding him those votes. but as part of the political negotiation that struck to make him president, the southern states manage to -- democrats manage to push republicans to end reconstruction formally. that happens in 1877, and once that happens what you see over really a decade, a decade and a half is a process where african-americans are gradually excluded from the political process in the south. it's a combination of state laws that go on the books and local laws that go on the books.

noses at congress. to me, this is not a partisan issue. it's simply taking back -- it's not even taking back our power. we already have this power, the supreme court has in fact upheld it and congress has used it in the past. i'm putting in procedures to allow us to execute it if we want to. we still don't have to execute this power next term. but at least there's an option to do that. and right now it just seems silly for us to have no ability to execute that option even though we have the power to do so. it is my hope that we could get more subpoenas issued on a bipartisan basis. i think that would be better for the institution. rep. lieu: you may recall republicans grappled with this when we were in control and went down the line of creating procedures to zero out individual government employees ' salary if we didn't like the way they were treating congress and creates an incredibly punishing tool to just your average government worker who had no idea they were getting ready to get dragged into a con

house in a new congress. he examines how the process has changed since 1789 and the influence of partisanship on those changes. >> it seems that the rain did not dampen any determination for you to attend today's research or talk. thank you for braving the elements. i'm richard mccully, the historian at the center for legislative archives, the sponsor of this series. today's program is the third researcher talk this year. next month, we pick up the pace a bit on may 19th, professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school and a former chief of staff of the joint committee

and the next congress. we've seen the disastrous consequences of fiscal irresponsibility with deficit-financed tax cuts for the wealthy and out-of-control budgets, and it is worth noting, and we have already heard this, but i will reiterate that we are going through pandemic right now. and the spending that we are doing and the relief that people need is very real and necessary, and this is the kind of crisis where page rules might need to be waived. this is a good example of that. when we're in a crisis, we need to make sure the people of this country are being cared for and it's also times like these that we see a real demonstration of a necessity for greater fiscal responsibility in normal times, in times that are good. and so, we are setting ourselves up to go through times like this. so i would encourage the adoption of this rule change and any other changes that would help promote the adherence to fiscal responsibility as we aim to use our taxpayer resources in the most effective way possible. and wit

second, congress asked the c.b.o. what would happen if they repealed what, would happen if they zeroed out the tax, and the c.b.o. came back and said the effect on the market would be the same either way. in other words, there would be no material difference between zeroing out the tax and flatly repealings 5000-a. that is the context in which congress acted here. third, the history is quite leer. the president, the congressional leadership, the bill sponsors and committee chairman, they were all shouting from the roof tops that they were repealing the mandate and giving individuals complete flexibility in terms of purchasing insurance. and finally, even if you thought that congress really did have an interest in continuing moral suasion, that couldn't mean they would want to bring the whole a.c.a. crashing down. in contrast to here, you had evidence that congress wanted the cfpb director to be independent of the president. there was evidence. but the court i had made the judgment there that congress would not have pr

it needs to be completed by congress. i believe firmly that the log raised withhas been chevron type issues. doare way out of time, but i want to tell one little joke on scalia. is one of those cases which i think is not going to survive this discussion to long. after the argument in the other discussed at great length, at the end of the argument, scalia turned over, over to thomas and said, you know clarance, -- you know arence, i think this was the worst decision ever by the supreme court. thomas said back to him, and you wrote it. >> i think this is an effort to conclude on time, i think nobody else has 15 or 30 second remarks. i want to thank our distinguished panelists for a very high-level discussion on the institutes of executive power and i think one thing history has shown us, at least of the early 21st century, is that these problems are going to be ubiquitous in the coming years as they have been in recent past. -- thank dean reuter and julie makes of the federalist society for setting this up. i would like to

here's a photo of some of the early women of congress at the start of the 71st congress i believe. there are lots of them and you can see they are very businesslike in their attire. nonetheless, wearing furs. this represents not all the women who are in congress, but lots of them. they are nonetheless being photographed and treated by the press as an entity. how that will get played out would change and, over the next couple of decades, as people try to figure out when we talk about when we talk about women in congress. >> this is an interesting photo because it points out, you can go through this and look at the way the women were elected to congress. on the front row far-left is pearl old field who had succeeded her husband. he was a senior member who passed away. then there's edith nourse rogers. then there's ruth pratte who was elected in her own right. she represented the silk stocking district in new york. here is ruth mccormack of illinois. her father was marcus hannah who was the republican kingmaker in the early part of the 20th century. he constantly butted heads with wil

so i am pleased to look to the 117th congress. but i'm focused on the 116th congress. we need to get work done for the american people. they need right now. and now i want to yield to the person who counts the votes, but much more than that, he gives us inspiration as a cause -- as a caucus, he gives us experience, he gives us history, he gives us a sense of purpose and of vision. the majority whip in this congress, the majority whip in the next congress, jim clyburn of south carolina. mr. clyburn: thank you very much, mr. leader, madam speaker, thank you so much for your leadership and your continued service to this great country. katherine, welcome to this particular table and thank you for your leadership. mr. chairman, i often talk about the war that i have with myself over issues like running things. nd i used to always say that the terms efficient and effective are always at war with each other. the more efficiency you have, sometimes the less effective or runs less efficiently. that's a rule. i want to say to you, mr. chairman, your leading this morning was an e

congress. and when he got here, he then found a lot of, a lot that he was interested, in a lot that came to him that perhaps he didn't ask for. in the way of how he was received, the issues he handled, all kinds of stuff like that. and he doesn't up being sort of the surrogate representative for african americans in general, right? >> absolutely. it must have been interesting shift for him, because he come up through the chicago political machine. and while he had advocating for his constituency in chicago, as far as the african american south side of chicago, he didn't get the sense that he really embraced this role, as a representative of african americans generally. until he comes to congress. and a couple of things happened right off the bat, almost immediately. they really forced him to take a really public role for african american political rights. he is, symbolically, and in fact the first african american to serve in a long time. but when he comes to congress, there is a bit of a fires

raney wasn't actually the first african-american in congress. that distinction went to hiram rememberables of mississippi elected by the state legislature as senators were back in the 19th century and he came into congress in early 1870. but when you think about that revolution that occurs within a matter of less than a decade -- so raney had been born into slavery. during the civil war he had been conscripted into the confederate army to dig trenches around charleston, where he was from. he escapes to bermuda. during the war. comes back after the war. gains a political experience and a political role locally, and within a decade he's holding the seat of a former confederate slave holder, and revels story is the same. born a free man, never a slave and he, too, comes into the senate in a seat held by a slave holder less than a deac kacade before. think about the great paradoxes in american history, that's one of them. that they come to the capitol and represent african-american constituencies and their doing it after those seats had been given u

it in 1901, white leaves congress. he faced a very tough reelection's, a lot of violence, a lot of fraud. and he leaves the house. when he does he gives a speech in february of 1901, which is tremendously moving, because he knows he's the last african american man to be in congress for a while. and at the end of the speech she says but you know, phoenix like some day, the african american will rise again in congress and come back. that takes three decades. >> i want to show you what i think is really sort of like that long tried period that happens after white leaves. one of the saddest parts of the artifacts we have. in fact this is one of the size artifacts that we have an escalation. pretty recent acquisition of ours, we haven't really seen one of these. this is a 1907 print that was made of all, it's called colored men who have served in the congress of the united states. i it is really a testament to the persistence of hope in the african american engagement for participating in public life. it's set in 19 oh, sil

john bingham in congress, james ashley in congress, henry wilson and congress, these are not widely known figures and yet they have to try to figure out, how do we make this is a just society in the aftermath of slavery? they experimented, they debated at length what should be in the constitution, how should the rights of african-americans be protected, they went down some false paths but ultimately they created a structure which if enforced would still be tremendously valuable to us today. a vision of this country as a society of equals with race evicted from the public policy from allocation to rights to people severing our democracy from the tyranny of race. took a lot of ingenuity to think about that and a lot of ingenuity to try to implement it and even if it wasn't fully implemented, the possibility is still out there in our constitution today, remember, one last thing, when the civil rights movement came around here in the 1960s, they didn't need a new constitution, they needed a new constitution we had to be enforced we still have this constitution was created during reconstructio

next we travel to philadelphia's national historical park, congress hall, the meeting place for congress from 1790 until 1800. our guide is park ranger matthew ifill. mr. ifill: we are standing in the old house of representatives. although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. but in the years that washington, d.c. is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u.s. capital. this room is for the house of representatives. the second floor was the united states senate. the house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. we had a population around 3.75 million. we had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. the story of philadelphia as the u.s. capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. in fact, secretary of state thomas jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to con

, right so this is the incoming congress, so the congress that was elected on november 3rd, this year, will actually start -- comes into being on january 3rd. all the new members are seated. you may have a new balance of power in terms of the new party controlling the house or the senate and then that chamber -- that new congress's first official course of business is to count the electoral votes in a joint session where literally what happens is usually four to six members of the house and the senate are designated as sort of having a ceremonial position of reading the ballots. literally they are stacked up in envelopes on the house dieias and they take turns opening them, reading off the tallies, handing them to the clerk of the house to be verified and then the vice president announces and certifies those votes as having counted. congress can reject or challenge ballots that are sent to it by the states. if both a representative and a senator object, that is basically this process involves, they open a ballot, they start from the beginning, they open the ballot, they read them and

this would be the new congress, so it's the incoming congress. so the congress that was elected willvember 3 this year come in on january 3. new members will be seated. you may have a new balance of power. then that new congresses first official course of business is to count electoral votes in the joint session where what happens is, four to six members of the house and the senate are designated as having the ceremonial position of reading the ballots. literally they are stacked up in envelopes and they take terms -- take turns opening them, reading off the tallies, handing them to be verified, then the vice president and ounces and certifies those votes as having counted. congress can reject war challenge ballots that are sent to it by the states. if both a representative and a senator object, that is ,asically this process involved they open about it, they start from the beginning, they read them and do it in alphabetical order by state. say it's alabama's turn, they open it up to read the ballots, six or seven electoral votes, a cast all six

here is a photo of the early women of congress at the start of the 71st congress. there are a lot of them. you can see they are very businesslike in their attire. but nonetheless they are willing for, you get north rodgers has flowers. this represents not all of the women in congress, but lots of them. you can see, nonetheless they are being photographed and treated by the press as an entity. and how that will get pleat out would change and over the next couple of decades, as people try to figure out what we are talking about when we talk about women in congress. >> this is an interesting photo because it points out, you can go through it and look at the way the women were elected to congress. on the front row in the far-left is parole old field, she succeeded her husband who was a senior member and he passed away. then edith norris rodgers, then ruth pratte who was elected in her own right now with any familiar connection, she represented the silk stocking district in new york city. that on the far side here is ruth bennett mccormack of illinois. her father was ma

this would be the new congress. this is the incoming congress, the congress that was elected on november 3rd this year and will actually starts to come into being january 3rd and we have a new balance of power. and then that congress is the first official joint of business, literally what happens is usually four to six members of the house of the senate are designated as having a ceremonial position of reading the ballots, literally they are stacked in envelopes on the house diocese and they take turns opening them, reading off the tallies, handing them to the clerk of the house to be verified and then the vice president announces and certifies those votes as having counted. congress can reject or a challenge ballots that are sent to it by the states, if both the representative and a senator object. basically this process involves, you open about, you start from the beginning, they read them in alphabetical order by state. say it is alabama's term, they open it and read the belt. they will see that alabama has i can

with us to learn who the voters select to leave the country as president in which parties will control congress, alive coverage on election night starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern and continues through the "washington journal" of 7:00 p.m. eastern during the conversation and share your experiences as a result come in and hear from the candidates, watch live on c-span and c-span.org or listen live on the c-span radio app, election night on c-span your place for an unfiltered view of politics. >> every year book tv as members of congress about the books they are reading. >> joining is now on book tv tom cole a republican from oklahoma, congressman wiebe asked you this question before, you've always had a large reading list, what is on your current reading list. >> i just finished the splendid and the vile by eric larson, wonderful account of him and his family, there in the worst year of the war right after becomes prime minister in 1940, the day of the german invasion in the countries in france and basically what it was like to stand alone against not see germany until june of 41 the russians are in t

you do in congress. tom: quite a bit. i do a sort of favorite book of the month. we publish regularly on our website . they have a lot of inquiries about that. and i throw party for republicans are your at christmas, a really nice affair. but they always get a christmas present. it's almost always a book. i quite often, in a conversation with somebody i know they have a particular interest but have you, i was in the book. i remember years ago adam from illinois, when brightest guys in congress. no was the young veteran, elected into the class of 2010. in his here back then it was very short. almost like a crewcut. he was still the rare service and still flew. and he reminded me of a picture i had seen of don rumsfeld in about the same age. the square jaw, good-looking guy. so i just bought the autobiography before and i sent it over to him. you're from illinois, he's from illinois. you've got a guy, he's gotta crewcut free device you get to know one another. so occasionally i will just send a book to som

house in a new congress. he examines how the process has changed since 1789 and the influence of partisanship on those changes. >> it seems that the rain did not dampen any determination for you to attend today's research or talk. thank you for braving the elements. i'm richard mccully, the historian at the center for legislative archives, the sponsor of this series. today's program is the third researcher talk this year. next month, we pick up the pace a bit on may 19th, professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school and a former chief of staff of the joint committee on taxation will speak about his research and that committee's records and the history of the joint committee and on may 26, we host a professor of political science of wind gate university who will discuss her research for her book about the politics of national identification documents in the united states in the 20th century. an important mission of the center is promoting scholars research in the records of the senate

that vote by congress is final, determinative, and nonreviewable. if a state's electoral college votes are rejected, then those electoral college votes are excluded from candidate totals. my second speech in this series covers what happens if, because of rejected electoral college votes, neither candidate has the majority of electoral college votes needed to be elected president of the united states. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. president donald trump was extraordinarily successful in south carolina, overcoming the bias fake news and to have a tremendous victory. the voters appreciated record job growth for african-americans, hispanics, and asian americans along with record job growth to women and youth, along with their restored military with peace through strength, protecting our allies like israel, as he stood for law enforcement to protect american families. there is true love and affection f

of congress. do you think american indians are having their voices heard in the u.s. congress? guest: at this point, yes. i believe we have our voice heard. while our numbers are relatively small, those who have emerged and are elected to congress are mighty voices. they are uncompromising voices. they are making sure every bit of public policy that is relevant and deeply impacts tribal nations, that we have a voice at that table. i cannot tell you how much we appreciate the leadership of those who are in congress. they are partnering with us on so many significant issues. i mentioned the broken promises report. we have a commitment from haalandcongressman deb along with elizabeth warren to develop concrete recommendations on the broken promises report. those are things that, having someone in congress, has stepped up our advocacy and voice inside the homes of congress. minneapolis, a republican. caller: thank you for letting me get in on this one. good morning to you. moved toto say i minnesota 3

when you rot a tell all about congress, you're usually not still in congress. that's what's a little bit different about my book freedom so there. these people are still my colleagues . but i think that to address the generational challenges that we face, putting on on the right of the left. do you think the issues like immigration, how we deal with digital platforms. the environment and the climate change. these are generational challenges predictable require belinda entered the political alignment to resolve them. i don't think it's all that productive to have democrats against republicans. and i have friendships with other people people on the other side because in time to do need to listen to one another and $8 or maybe any thing to disagree on but if there are some things you can agree on, they had to pt those at the front of the list. host: in a moment i will ask you about katie hill because you cover the both in the book really well. are you a natural born politician. i know your dad was the perfect politician. are you how you achieve political status an

when you write a tell-all about congress, usually masculine congress. that is a little different about my book is that i am still there. but i think to address the generational challenges we face, when they got on the writer on the left to do think how we deal with digital platforms and the environment and climate change. these are generational challenges. it will require bit of a political realignment to solve them. i think that re- treating to our cars of the republican versus democrat is not all that productive . in some of my friendships like alexandria cortez and katie hill. because i think at times, you need to listen to one another. and to acknowledge their maybe anything to disagree on but if there are some things you can agree on, then you want to put those at the front of the list. host: i want to ask you about katie and alexandria, you cover both of them in your book really well. are you a natural born politician . know your dad, he was a politician. are you a natural born politician. you can figure out how to achieve celebrity status in the

take congress. it dends upon coming you can pass laws but they depend upon those executives to enforce laws in the depend upon the judiciary to ierpret those laws. they in turn find the executive and the executive cannot do anything f which the funds are nothere appropriated ., nothing. >>he envisioned that as an blossomed into something much largest, much mor influential i think because of so any disputes being bught to the cour. the courts are asked to resolve so any more legal questions than i think ever could've been anticipated. we are much more interest as a people. and i think even as early as 1830. during the united states criticized they judiciary is compared to what was at the time, i don't think it is grown influence or importance beyond more than proportionate with the other branches . the whole government is much greater, not just in size but in terms of what it undertakes in the framers ever can possibly have anticipated. now the idea there would be a national or federal government of

there is our continental congress. the articles of confederation sort of sets the rules for the continental congress. that's an idea that comes into this room with benjamin franklin at the beginning of the war. it's an idea he dusted off from the 1750s, during the french and ind indian war. well, he kind of dusts off the old ideas, rewrites this first version of the articles of confederation. the day after they chose the committee to write the declaration of independence, they also chose a committee with a member from each of the states to write the articles of confederation, the main writer would be another pennsylvanian, john dickinson. he would be famous for trying to slow us down for independence. but at the same time he's working on writing the articles of confederation, this formal agreement between the states of how the united states is going to operate where essentially the congress would run the war, run foreign policy, the states would kind of run their internal, but they would cooperate with each other. you

do in congress. tom: quite a bit. i do a favor to book-of-the-month. we publish it regularly on website. we have a lot of inquiries about that. and i throw a party for the republican book fairs every year at christmas. it's a really nice affair. usually dinner and they always get a christmas present and it's almost always a book. and quite often in a conversation with somebody, they know that they have a particular interest or what have you, austin them a book. remember years ago, adam from illinois, he was a young man one of her brightest guys in congress. and i was a young veteran. and elected into the class of 2010. back then his hair was short. also a crew cut. i'm the reserves and still flies. and he reminded me of a picture i'd seen of a man about the same age. square jaw, good-looking guy. i had the book so i just bought the auto biography for him and send it to him. and i said he's got a crewcut in your both from illinois new guy should get to know one another. so occasionally understandable

that led to their work at the library of congress. he already had a successful he was extremely well known for his commission to create book illustrations for an addition of -- edition of the rubiyat. when his book illustrations came made him aally highly successful artist. successful that he was invited to participate in the chicago fair. he got a commission to design and exhibition. he accepted this commission to make a design for a medallion for the chicago fair. two medallions were created. medallion and a civilian -- silver medallion. were dedicateds -- had dedications on the reverse. they had a seated figure of fortune or good luck sitting in a wings chariot. they created the drawing upon which the medallion was based. her left hand rests on a cornucopia representing prosperity. he also had no difficulty in obtaining a commission to the library of congress. he received a commission to murals for the main reading room vestibule. vedder was commissioned in 1895 to paint the effects of good and bad government. good administration c

when you write a tell-all about congress you're usually not still in congress. that's what's little different about my book but i'm still there and people are still my colleagues but i think to address the generational challenges tha they face whether you are on the rider on the left eye do think issues ke immigration and how we deal with digital platforms, the environment and climate change. these are generational challenges that will require a political realignment. i don't think that returning to our corners republican versus democrat is all that productive and his wife and writing a book about so my friendships with people like alexandria ocasio cortez. we need to listen to one another and acknowledged thathere may be many things you disagree on but is there some things can agree on you ought to put those on the front of the list. >> and the minute i want to ask you about katie hill because you cover them both in your look really well. are you a natural-born politician? i know your dad is a terrific politician. a natural-born politician who has figured out h

many congress and many members. there are plenty of times where we disagree and we disagree strongly, but we disagree with respect to knowing that we are committed at aca connects to make sure our members' voices are heard and represented. in most things, whether it's a new congress or any fcc, there are things you are going to like as an association and may be as a company and there are things you are going to dislike. what i have found and what we have found for sure is that we have been privileged to work with washington, to roll up our sleeves, as we are doing now, looking forward to how we can make broadband more available, to increase adoption, increase speeds to meet the needs. we look forward to working together in this public-private way to ensure that our members can stay viable, can recover their costs, can invest, while at the same time, we also work with washington on the very important role that they have in overseeing our industry. so, it's a pleasure and a privilege and an honor that we have to work

up into the 112th congress. the solid line is the fraction of votes received by the top vote getter. the first round of voting for the speak er. that indicates that much times they could not get a ma yourty vote for a single person. you notice that things start to get calm around 1870. and fact that you don't -- the line not getting up totally to one is not because of defections, but usually because of absences. things like that. this is a slightly different graph, but this is the boehner problem and the ryan problem that kind of put it in context. it is the biggest die vvergence. so this is a big deal. a really big deal, okay? i'm going to skip over, and you can just believe many that they were really important and interesting. or you can buy the book and find out about that. thunder sr. is a visualization to kind of show visually where the conflicts are. so each column is a congress from the first down to the 115th. and this row is -- oops -- shows us -- what happened? oh. there we go. when speaker elections k

when you write a tell all about congress usually not still in congress. that's a little dferent about my book. i am still there these people are still my cleagues. think to address the generational challenges that we face, when the on the right, the left, i do think issues like immigration, how we deal digal platforms, the environment and climate change. these are generational challenges. they will require aittle bit of the political realignment. i don't think retreating to our corners for republican versus democrat is all that productive. that's why writing the book about some of my friendships like alexandria cossey of cortez, katie hill i think sometimes you do need to listen to one another. there coul be many things you can agree on i want to ask you in the minute about aoc, katie hill, you cover them bh in your book very well. are you a natural born politician? i know your dad was a politician are you a natural born politician who has figured out h to achieve celebrity status in the socl media age? or maybe it's the converse. natural born like ronald

this would be the new congress. this is the incoming congress. the congress that was elected on november 3rd this year and will actually start to come to be that new congress first official course of business is to count the electoral votes in a joint session. this is usually 4-6 members of the house and senate designated as a ceremonial position. envelopestacked in and they take turns opening them , reading off the tallies and reading them to the clerk of the house to be verified. the vice president announces and certifies those votes. they could reject or challenge ballots. both a representative and senator object, they open a ballot and start from the beginning. they do it in alphabetical order by state. they take the turn and open it up. -- i don'tlabama member how many alabama has. all six or seven of its electoral votes for donald j. trump and mike pence for vice president. they handed over to the clerk who reads it again. the vice president waits to see if anybody objects. if a house member and senator both raised their hand and object, it

>> i am excited that we have more women in congress. that doesn't mean we have shared views, but hope we we can find common ground on some issues related to domestic violence or how the women in a caucus in the bipartisan way came together in the beginning. issues that relate to teen -- issues thaten relate to teen pregnancy have been a bipartisan focus over time, reducing that. let's be optimistic and let's see. i congratulate each and every one of them. of course, we have nine or 10 new women coming into our caucus this time. we are sadly losing a few new women in the congress. but we are happy to have all these new members, and they are beautifully diverse. >> thank you, good morning. you are going to have to -- you are going to have a narrow majority here. you've always talked about knowing your power. now,is your power right with a small majority, pressure inside the caucus and your role as a speaker? >> let me just say with that score, we are very much involved in these races. we have a number that have not been counted. we were i

before this congress ends and a new congress is sworn in missouri republican senator roy blunt says he's working this week with gop lawmakers to reach an agreement on a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown december 11th lynn couldn't say whether a covid relief bill might be included. but says keeping americans waiting for relief is a huge failure of congress both sides are saying we ought to do the bill this year, but both sides are saying we want to do all of the that we want to do all i know is there are people >>we. >>i'm not doing right by their cliburn says his main priority is getting a deal done by the end of the year reporting in washington, i'm kelly meyer. >>more members of congress test positive for covid-19 and the children reporting in washington why lawmakers are debating on the necessity of a mask mandate. there's no bad time to start at amazon... ♪ i like the flexibility. it also allows for picking up shifts. safety comes first, speed comes second. safety. safety. safety. we're making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. it makes me ver

fortunately when we are restoring congress hall to look fortunately, when we are restoring congress hall to look as it would have, we had 29 original chairs. the majority were in the house based on simple proportion. a couple were marked senate. a couple had different colored upholstery. some of these were probably in the house. we said, let's put them in the senate chamber. we will fill the senate chamber with 29 of the 32 chairs being original either for the house or senate, but original nevertheless. the eagle on the ceiling -- we are not 100% sure of the date. the one thing i can tell you is there are 15 stars above it. it is somewhere after the 15th state and there is the union. we don't know exactly when and may never know exactly when it was painted. it was sort of an artistic rendering of the seal of the united states. the seal was another thing created in philadelphia by the continental congress and independence hall in 1782. it was something they worked on throughout the revolutionary war. they kept changing a little bit here and there until they worked out the final version of

. >> host: how much sharing of book ideas do you do in congress? >> guest: quite a bit. we keep a -- i do a sort of favorite book of the month that we publish regularly on our website, and we get a lot of inquiries about that. i also threw a party for republican appropriators every year at christmas, a really nice affair, usually dinner at the willard. but they always get a christmas present and it's almost always a book. and quite often if i'm in a conversation with somebody, i know they have a particular interest or what have you, i will send them a book. i remember years ago adam kenzinger from illinois was a young member. he's one of our brightest guys in congress and a young veteran and was elected in the class of 2010. his hair back then was very short, almost like a crew cut. he is still in the reserves, still flies, and he reminded me of a picture i had seen of don rumsfeld at about the same age, square jaw, good-looking guy. so i just bought rumsfeld autobiography and sent over to him. you are from illinois, he is from illinois. you got a