The honorable the speaker, House of Representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2H of Rule 2 of the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, the clerk received the following message from the Secretary of the Senate on April 14th, 2025 at 2.55 p.m. that the Senate agreed to without amendment.
House Concurrent Resolution 22.
Signed sincerely, Kevin F. McCumber, Clerk.
The Honorable the Speaker, House of Representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2H of Rule 2 of the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, the clerk received the following message from the Secretary of the Senate on April 15th, 2025 at 1.05 p.m. that the Senate agreed to relative to the death of George Foreman of Houston, Texas.
Senate Resolution 178.
Signed sincerely, Kevin F. McCumber, Clerk.
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Pursuant to Clause 13 of Rule 1, the House stands adjourned until noon on Monday, April 21st, 2025.
The House now adjourned until Monday, but the Washington Journal continues this morning, and we will end today in our open forum.
Any public policy issue, any political issue that you want to talk about, the phone lines are yours to do so.
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And we're going to start in Caspian, Michigan.
Robert on the line for independence.
Robert, it's open forum.
What's on your mind?
unidentified
Good morning, people.
This is Robert from the fascist town of Caspian, Michigan.
I want to jump off this political train for a minute or two and talk about how sugar happy some of these police officers are.
There was an incident that took place in Idaho or Iowa, I believe.
I believe it was Idaho.
There was four officers that shot and actually it was executed.
They executed a 17-year-old who was autistic in his own yard through a fence.
He wasn't showing any harm to the police.
He did have knife in his hand.
Unfortunately, he was in his own yard, and it was a disgusting scene.
And it should be played all over the public.
What happened was the neighbor I just called the police and said that it looked like there was a drunk in the yard and the kid was autistic and that knife was in handy.
And Robert, the story from the headline Headline from NBC News on this story: a funeral being held for Idaho teen with autism who police shot nine times in his yard.
I didn't watch the video, Robert, but this story from this week.
unidentified
It was an execution.
I truly believe that the officers, they come up in their police cars and they jumped out of the car.
One officer, as soon as he jumped out of his car, he drew his and he went up to the fence, and four officers went up to the fence, and then he backed away from the fence a little bit when the child was on the ground.
And he couldn't, not only had autism, he had cerebral palsy, I believe, where he couldn't even stand.
He was on the ground.
He acted like he was trying to stand up.
And that's when they just executed him.
And I believe, I believe, the business here of the officers, we do need local peace.
I mean, I respect the badge, you know.
And there's no problem, but some officers, they just, they're out of control.
I experienced this myself a few times, but not that bad.
We're between Cincinnati and the Indiana state line.
And I want to speak about Social Security and Medicare.
Taxing Corporations Like People00:02:26
unidentified
I understand that Social Security, the money will start slowing down in about five years.
So I was thinking to myself, how can we correct this?
And I looked up and found that Citizens United made companies, corporations, and businesses people so that they could give more money to their, who they want to get elected for whatever reason, an endless amount of money.
And I thought, well, we could tax companies, corporations, and businesses like people.
Take the cap off of Social Security.
They will pay Social Security on all the money that they make like we make.
And then we won't have to raise the age of Social Security.
We won't have to tax the working poor, the middle class.
We won't even have to tax the super duper rich.
This will be a way that we could take care of Social Security because on your taxes, you're not allowed to write off your FICA taxes.
This comes off of the top.
It does not come off of the whey at the bottom.
It comes off of the cream at the top.
And Social Security and Medicare would be taken care of for life.
That's Catherine in the Buckeye State to the Garden State.
This is Tom in Flanders, Republican.
It's open forum.
Tom, what's on your mind?
unidentified
Yes, I tried to get through when Mr. Perry was on, and I'll try to make it quick.
I served in the service with black people and never had a problem.
Everybody just in the service, so you were all together.
And I worked for a utility company for 30 years, and we've worked with black people.
They all made the same money that I made or whatever, whatever class that they were in.
So never had a problem.
And now I'm in my 80s, right?
And I'm thinking, like, I retired 30 years ago, and I'm listening to all of these people calling in and saying how they hate black people, they hate white people, and whatnot.
Challenging Racism Discourse00:07:06
unidentified
And you know, it's gotten to the point where I like if I had a business, I wouldn't hire a black person.
If I hired a black man, why would you do that?
Well, how would I know whether he hates me or not, right?
I just wanted to say that I just think it's crazy that the focus, you know, the Republicans are talking about common sense, but you look at the airwaves, because I do watch all channels, all news channels.
I'm a news junkie.
And they're talking about, you know, they're having the angel mom dog hustling in about how those murder victims of migrants didn't get any due process.
Tell me what murder victim did get due process.
You know, those angel moms, it's horrible what happened to their daughters, but it's also horrible what happened to the college students in Idaho or any other murder that occurs.
The victims of John Wayne Gacy, they didn't get due process either.
No murder victim does.
And then the other thing is the amount of airtime that they're spending on the trans issue in Maine.
There are only two trans students identified in Maine.
Is it really, really worth really harassing those two young people to not be able to participate with their friends in sports?
The sports organizations should handle out how championships are fair, not the president of the United States.
And then the other thing is due process.
Due process should be afforded to everyone in the United States.
No one has benefited from due process more than Donald Trump, yet he's trying to deny it to others.
America is not America without due process, and America is not America with gulags.
And then the other thing is, I have not seen anything on your program this morning about the leak with Doge in the National Bureau of Labor Statistics and what they were downloading and what the whistleblower has said.
So could you please show the clip about the whistleblower and the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, please?
Jill, on the first topic that you brought out, this is the story from USA Today this morning.
A man from El Salvador has been found guilty in the 2023 murder of a Maryland woman who was attacked on a popular hiking trail in a Baltimore suburb.
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, age 24, was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree rape, third-degree sex offense, and kidnapping on April 14th, according to the Harford County State's Attorney's Office.
A Maryland jury deliberated for less than an hour before returning the guilty verdict.
Rachel Moore, 37, a mother of five, who vanished in August of 2023 while walking on the Mompa Heritage Trail in Bel Air in Northeast Baltimore.
He was eventually arrested in Oklahoma in June of 2024.
Black people, we have to play the cars that we have been dealt with.
The game is wreaked.
And I'm Mr. Perry that was the one that was speaking.
He spoke good.
I spoke a good comment or two.
But like I say, the game is rigged, and there's nothing we can do about it.
White people can't, couldn't endure the things that black people have went through over the years that we've been going through what we're going through.
The second previous speaker, the one who talked about immigration and, you know, deportation, he said that the prisons in El Salvador are only going to be paid enough money to cover costs.
I really doubt that.
Prisons have always made money.
There's a lot of privatized prisons of all kinds in this country.
Raising Points in Michigan00:15:25
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People are making, private citizens are making money off of these prisons.
And I wanted you guys to know that there is a detention center being built in Baldwin, Michigan, which is in lower Southeast Michigan.
And I would just speculate that if Americans start to get deported to these other countries' prisons, you better believe there won't be any white people going.
About 10 minutes left in the Washington Journal this morning.
It's open forum asking for any public policy, any political issue that's on your mind as you continue to call in.
Did want to let you know what's going on on the C-SPAN networks today after our program at 10 a.m. Eastern, a discussion on the global economic outlook.
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Crystalina Georgieva, will speak about the global economy and policy priorities for members of Congress.
Live coverage at 10 a.m. Eastern here on C-SPAN, also C-SPAN.org and the free C-SPAN Now video app.
1 p.m. this afternoon.
That again is Eastern time.
It's former Treasury Secretary and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers discussing the Trump administration's economic strategy.
Mr. Summers is being hosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Again, 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
That is on C-SPAN 2.
This evening, a couple of events.
First on C-SPAN, it's a Canadian Party leaders debate between leaders vying to be the next Canadian prime minister ahead of the country's federal election on April the 28th.
It's a program that we are airing that will include Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney at 7 p.m. on C-SPAN, C-SPAN.org, and the free C-SPAN Now app at 7 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 2.
It's a town hall with Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Madeline Dean.
You can watch that, see how she interacts with her constituents and addresses their concerns again on C-SPAN2, C-SPAN.org, and the free C-SPANNO video app.
But, you know, Mr. Perry, I won't say that this was just another round of American bashing and blaming racism on everything.
But I actually would have liked to ask him.
I assume that his work was probably focused on blacks in America.
And I would have asked him if there is a majority black country somewhere that, you know, that the life expectancy is longer than it is here in the United States for blacks.
Just less than 10 minutes here before the end of our program today.
unidentified
Okay, well, thank you.
I'm just wondering, why isn't anybody speaking about how King Jefferson is cracking in the Democratic Party being prepped for the next president in 2028?
Also, Did people not hear and listen when Donald Trump first said something about being a snake in the grass concerning doing what he's doing exactly right now while our world is in the crisis?
He's so busy with Putin trying to destroy us and destroy Ukraine that he's forgotten about his own country and lowering the prices of our groceries and the economy.
Yesterday, there was an African-American man, black man, who said that what have the Democrats done for the Democrats?
Because he was a Democrat.
I just want to remind all Democrats and Republicans and MAGAs that the Democrats gave women the first right to vote.
Democrats also brought in Social Security.
The Democrats also brought in FEMA and the USAID.
The Democrats also gave surplus to the United States.
The Democrats also went on and gave America the ACA.
The Democrats also went on and also implemented civil rights, Medicare, and Medicaid.
The Democrats also gave the PAC Act for the veterans who was in war from the career all the way up to now, insurance.
The Democrats also gave infrastructure for people who did not have Wi-Fi.
The Democrats did a lot, but a lot of people still want something that this administration is definitely taking away everything that the Democrats have achieved.
With that, why do you think Democrats lost in 2024 and no longer control any of the levers of the House and Senate or White House?
unidentified
Well, if you look at it, the administration that we have here now, he poured fire on gasoline.
And he made topics of like CRT, gay people in sports, nothing for the American people.
He also ran on tariffs.
I'd like to ask your viewers, if you get a chance, ask your viewers when Trump was talking about tariffs, would they have voted for him if he said you're going to feel some pain?
He said a lot of things, but he definitely is showing the people that he lied.
But the Democrats gave a lot of contribution to the United States that we are going to miss in this administration.
That bigger man from Texas should shut his mouth about immigration.
The question is: why are people deciding in South and Central America that they need to immigrate?
There's something wrong in this hemisphere, and it's up to the United States to try to help solve the problem so they won't leave their home country in the first place.
And the next question is: why wasn't Donald Trump been arrested for defying a court order?