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| We're joined on this eighth day of the government shutdown by Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Pingree of Maine. | ||
| Congresswoman, good morning to you. | ||
| Thanks for the time this morning. | ||
| What's been the impact of the shutdown in your district, the first district of Maine, sort of that southern district in the Pine Tree State? | ||
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Sure. | |
| Well, thanks very much for having me. | ||
| I mean, I would say the number one impact is just the high level of concern that people have about the uncertainty. | ||
| We don't have as many federal workers, of course, as many states like Maryland and Virginia, but we do have Acadia National Park. | ||
| This is one of the most high traffic seasons there as the leaves start to change color. | ||
| So the whole issue around will the park be closed, it's not completely closed, but it has a limited amount of personnel and how do you manage that many people? | ||
| Do the visitors get the same experience? | ||
| Where do they go for information? | ||
| That is certainly one of the concerns. | ||
| And, you know, while you might say, oh, it's just a park, you know, it's vacation. | ||
| The fact is it's a huge economic driver, particularly for the communities that surround it that are worried about will people stop coming, what's going to happen, will it be a bad visitor experience? | ||
| And also long-term damage to this park and so many of our others that are experiencing the same issues. | ||
| So I would say that's the thing I've, you know, I've certainly heard people talking about most. | ||
| But then again, the uncertainty and will this impact me? | ||
| How is it going to, all the questions that people are raising that they don't know about how it will impact their lives? | ||
| And as shutdowns continue, as we know, there's more and more challenges that go on and more and more federal workers who have to figure out, you know, I'm living by paycheck by paycheck. | ||
| How do I handle this? | ||
| Just the many things that you hear about all the time. | ||
| So is it time to make a deal? | ||
| How do you see this ending? | ||
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Hey, as you've heard our leader say, he'll sit down anywhere, anytime, any place. | |
| He was right there at the White House when the president asked him. | ||
| I think there's plenty of opportunities to make a deal. | ||
| I'm a member of the Appropriations Committee. | ||
| We're on call. | ||
| Come in any moment of the day. | ||
| Be ready to make any kind of a deal. | ||
| But the Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. | ||
| They have the ability to reverse this in a moment. | ||
| I know that many of my Republican colleagues are worried about exactly the same things that we are. | ||
| That's the enhanced premium tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, which kicks in on November 1st, but people are getting the notices now. | ||
| And that compounded with the damage done by the Big Ugly Bill, where there were huge cuts to Medicaid, other things that will imperil our local hospitals. | ||
| So there are things we have to discuss now. | ||
| And this idea of waiting seven weeks, which was their CR proposal to get this all done. | ||
| Like I said, I'm a member of the Appropriations Committee. | ||
| We've been in 92 hours of markup on our 12 bills. | ||
| So it's not as if we haven't spent many, many hours trying to negotiate these things. | ||
| We've hit a stone wall. | ||
| Even our colleagues on appropriations who are willing to negotiate basically get orders from their leadership to say, no, we're just, we're not going along with anything. | ||
| So what's an acceptable deal in your mind? | ||
| Is an acceptable deal opening the government back up with a promise to have those discussions before within the next seven weeks before the impact of some of those subsidies take place? | ||
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Well, as you hear almost every negotiator say, look, I'm not going to say what my bottom line is in the middle of a negotiation. | |
| So, of course, you go in with a big ask and then you see what you can get. | ||
| We don't want this government to stay shut down any longer than it has to be, and we wish it wasn't shut down at all. | ||
| In fact, we wish the Republicans would have just agreed to do these things without having to shut down. | ||
| But this notion that we will just go into a conversation, I mean, that's what they said in the beginning, like, oh, that's an interesting problem. | ||
| You've got a health care issue. | ||
| Well, we'd be willing to talk about that. | ||
| I mean, sorry, but that's just kind of bullshit. | ||
| I mean, it's like, wait, we have to concretely decide that these are the things that will go into that bill. | ||
| We have to get back into the negotiations. | ||
| When they said, give us seven weeks to negotiate this stuff, I mean, this has been nine months, and we've watched them dismantle government, cut employees, cut funding, many of them in illegal and unconstitutional ways. | ||
| We've got to have a lot more than a promise to discuss it. | ||
| What's the conversation been like within the Pine Tree State delegation? | ||
| What do you make of Senator Angus King and Jared Golden voting for the CRs to keep the government open? | ||
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Well, it's not unlike our delegation of four to split all over the place. | |
| We're usually very much unified when it comes to issues relating our big shipyard or any of the things that are critically important to our state. | ||
| But we often have different opinions about going about how to go about this. | ||
| And two members, well, actually, three, I'm the only one who voted to oppose this CR. | ||
| I think they all thought, well, I mean, some of the arguments they made were like, oh, well, if you shut the government down and you let Russ vote and Donald Trump just kind of have a free-for-all, they might do more damage. | ||
| I mean, that was the same argument we went through in March. | ||
| And we went ahead with the CR. | ||
| I didn't vote for it then either. | ||
| But the fact is, now we've had many more months of experience. | ||
| And I say to all my colleagues, Senator Collins knows this a little more firsthand because she is on the Appropriations Committee. | ||
| But to the other two, I say, you know, get into my shoes, 92 hours of markups, and these guys don't move. | ||
| What makes you think that they won't continue to dismantle the government even if you vote for a shutdown? | ||
| So I think we have to use the leveraging power that we have. | ||
| I appreciate that different members of Congress, you know, vote different ways and have their opinions about things. | ||
| But in this case, I think I'm solidly right and they are wrong. | ||
| Just one more follow-up on that. | ||
| Jared Golden, his statement after he voted for it. | ||
| Some of my colleagues in the majority party, the Republican Party, have reasonable concerns about tax credits going to high-income households. | ||
| There's room and there's time to negotiate, but oral policy disagreements are no reason to subject our constituents to the continued harm of this shutdown. | ||
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Yeah, well, I mean, bringing up the issue about how those tax credits work, my understanding is that, you know, very few of the enhanced premium tax credits go to anybody with a high income. | |
| They're basically able to pay for their insurance themselves. | ||
| You know, it has to be a certain percentage of your income. | ||
| So you have to pay something like $4,000 or $5,000 a month in premiums for that to kick in. | ||
| If you've got an income, say, $300,000, $400,000, and that means almost nobody in Maine. | ||
| We're the 38th in per capita income in this country. | ||
| So that doesn't really cover us. | ||
| The second thing is, I've heard Richie Neal, who's our ranking member on Ways and Means, say, hey, there might be some argument for bringing that cap back. | ||
| I think it was there before some recent changes in the last couple of years. | ||
| So I think there's wiggle room there. | ||
| But you're just talking about one piece of this. | ||
| So yeah, that should be part of the negotiation if that's what we want to negotiate. | ||
| But you certainly can't hang your hat on saying like, oh, that will be enough to fix the whole thing. | ||
| We got a big problem in front of us. | ||
| And I think the biggest argument the Republicans keep giving us is, well, this doesn't kick in until December 31st. | ||
| Why are you worrying about it now? | ||
| Well, people are getting their notices in October. | ||
| They've got to make this decision in November. | ||
| And from what I've heard from many of my constituents, some of whom have either gone on the calculator or who have already gotten their notices, they're saying my premium is going to increase 200%, twice as much as it was, more than my mortgage. | ||
| And many people will decide to drop their health insurance, and then we'll be right back where we were before we passed the Affordable Care Act in 2009 or 10. | ||
| I mean, that's crazy. | ||
| We can't, we, in Congress, we have the ability to see ahead. | ||
| We know what's going to happen here. | ||
| That is exactly why the Republicans went ahead and extended the tax credits for the wealthiest people in this country. | ||
| They didn't expire until December 31st either, but they had to get the big bill passed a long time ago. | ||
| So I say the same thing to them. | ||
| If you care about people's health care, get on this task now. | ||
| Is it a strange time to be on the same side of Marjorie Taylor Greene when it comes to avoiding premium hikes? | ||
| What do you make of her statement, her criticism of Republican leadership on this issue? | ||
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You know, I think all too often on the outside, people think that like we sit on opposite sides of the aisle and there's an invisible barrier and we can't talk. | |
| We don't know each other. | ||
| I mean, many Democrats have good friends on both sides of the aisle. | ||
| It is not at all unusual to see a bed that has a bill that has odd bud fellows. | ||
| You know, it might be about health care. | ||
| It might be about stock trading. | ||
| I sign bills often with Representative Massey. | ||
| He and I both, you know, we both raise some of our own food and live off of the grid. | ||
| So we're often on the same side related to certain agriculture issues. | ||
| I had a conversation with Marjorie Taylor Greene not too long ago, just telling her I was pleased to see she opposed the bombing in Iran. | ||
| So I'm not surprised at all that there are members who, you know, who have different ideas. | ||
| There is no such thing as a locked-in sort of siloed position in Congress. | ||
| And oh, if you're a progressive here, if you're a freedom caucus here, you know, we cross over on all kinds of things, whether they're privacy, security, the Epstein files. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| Congress isn't a monolith. | ||
| I'm pleased that she's speaking up. | ||
| I think she has an important voice in her caucus. | ||
| We don't have to agree on everything, but it's good when we have those areas of agreement and we should fight together on the same front. | ||
| And C-SPAN's new program, Ceasefire, sort of highlighting those areas of agreement from members on different sides of the aisle. | ||
| The ceasefire program airing on the C-SPAN networks and its premiere coming up this Friday. | ||
| So hope you join us on that. | ||
| And Congressman, might be something for you to join us on down the road. | ||
| While we have, I think we've got you for about 15 minutes. | ||
| Can I get you a few phone calls from viewers? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Let me start in New England in Worcester. | ||
| Robert Democrat, good morning. | ||
| You're on with Shelly Pingree. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I must be the luckiest man in America because of my health care. | ||
| I got Medicaid. | ||
| I've got Blue Cross Blue Shield, Massachusetts. | ||
| I've got Nass Health. | ||
| I got free medicine. | ||
| So I would classify myself as the luckiest man in America. | ||
| And my sympathy goes with the people of Washington State. | ||
| Here's my question. | ||
| And one of the John, how many times did you have the Heritage Foundation on this show talking about 2025 project? | ||
| This is 2525 project. | ||
| It's got to be done before the end of 2025. | ||
| This is what makes it so dangerous. | ||
| This is why we do not vote for this health care thing. | ||
| We've got to pass this though because I want everybody to have what I have. | ||
| I'm blessed to have what I have. | ||
| And the shutdown, this shutdown is all about Donald Trump taking over the military, the Justice Department, Homeland Security, ICE agents, state troopers, local police. | ||
| He's recruiting these. | ||
| Every time he brings the military into a town, he's actually recruiting a local police officer. | ||
| Hey, tell them you're not getting paid that much money, so come click the ICE. | ||
| Robert, you bring up a lot of issues. | ||
| Congressman, what do you want to follow up on? | ||
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Well, first, Robert, thanks for calling in. | |
| I'm a big fan of Worcester, Massachusetts, lived there one year of my life, and actually was just back there last year visiting my grandson who was in school there and went to the Miss Worcester Diner, which is one of my favorite places on earth. | ||
| So lucky you to live in Worcester. | ||
| But you bring up a lot of important points and congratulations on having such excellent health care. | ||
| You absolutely have what every American should have. | ||
| I believe in Medicare for all. | ||
| I believe in a much simpler system of coverage, but I'm glad to see that you are able to access your health care from so many different areas and that you are covered and that you get free prescriptions. | ||
| That's really important. | ||
| You're absolutely right about Project 2025, as we all recall. | ||
| You know, the president spent much of his campaign kind of looking up into space saying like, oh, I've never heard of that. | ||
| No, I've never read that. | ||
| Oh, I don't know what that is. | ||
| Come to find out it was written by Russ Vote, who now took over the Office of Management and Budget. | ||
| And say what you will, but he is the evil genius behind these millions of layoffs and cuts and unconstitutional behavior that has required us to have hundreds of lawsuits, 90% of which we win, but take up a lot of time in court and have been a huge disruption and damage to this federal government. | ||
| And I don't know every evil plan behind the shutdown, but I know that many of my colleagues and many, many, many people that I talk to back in my district, Republican, Democrat, conservative, not, are worried about the military in the streets. | ||
| It's just something that feels very un-American to us. | ||
| The idea, and we've had several incidents of this, we don't have the military occupying our street, but ice picking people up when they're dropping kids off at school or other kinds of raids of businesses is very disturbing to people. | ||
| And I don't think they like the course of what's going on. | ||
| And obviously, the courts have been ruling against the president, telling him he can't use the National Guard in Portland, Oregon. | ||
| And then he just turns around and says, oh, well, maybe I can use the California National Guard. | ||
| And I love the fact that the judge went right back in and said, what is it you don't understand about the law of the United States of America? | ||
| So thanks for your call. | ||
| All great points. | ||
| The Miss Worcester Diner on Southbridge Street in Worcester, Mass. | ||
| What's your go-to when you go there? | ||
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Oh, geez, what did I eat last time? | |
| I think I ate like some kind of, like, I think they had chowder. | ||
| I think that was a, it was a chowder thing. | ||
| I remember remembering a bowl in front of me. | ||
| Maybe it was chili. | ||
| That's terrible. | ||
| I love food, but I can't remember what it is. | ||
| The Miss Worcester Diner. | ||
| Back to your phone calls. | ||
| This is Ann out of the Pine Tree State Democrat. | ||
| Ann, you're on with Congresswoman Pingree. | ||
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Hi, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to thank Shelly Pingree. | |
| I'm actually in CD too, but Shelly Pingree much more represents my views. | ||
| I'm very active with the Hancock County Democratic Committee, which is working really hard. | ||
| And I'm asking all Mainers to vote no on the question one on our ballot because that is even more extreme than the SAVE Act. | ||
| But I really, you know, our entire congressional delegation, except for Chelly Pingree, has rolled over to the MAGA CR. | ||
| And I'm just, she's my point of light. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Congresswoman. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Well, thank you, Anne. | ||
| That's my kind of call. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And as you know, you know, Maine is a small state. | ||
| We're only 1.3 million people. | ||
| So first and second CD, we have a lot in common. | ||
| Hancock County, that's where I went to college, College of the Atlantic, and that's where Acadia National Park is. | ||
| So a lot of attention is focused on there right now. | ||
| And no one won, I agree. | ||
| I know that's not the topic of our call today, but it's one of the many ballot measures that's being proposed by the ultra-right, trying to restrict our ability to cast a vote. | ||
| Now, in Maine, we often rival Minnesota. | ||
| We have a little contest sometimes every year for the highest percentage of voter turnout in the country. | ||
| And I have seen our laws change over the years and mostly making it more just simpler for voters to cast their vote. | ||
| It used to be you had to request an absentee ballot. | ||
| You had to have an excuse. | ||
| Where was I going to be? | ||
| Out of the country, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Now, no-fault absentee, early voting. | ||
| So many of these things have made a huge difference because we've been back in the state of Maine this week, not in Washington since the doors are locked. | ||
| I was able, I think on Monday morning, to go down to the town office in my community. | ||
| I live in a very small town in the state of Maine. | ||
| Walked in, they had the ballots already. | ||
| It was first day of voting. | ||
| And I was able to pick up my ballot, cast my vote right there, and get it right back to them. | ||
| And it was just so simple. | ||
| I knew it was safe. | ||
| I gave it right back to the person who handed it to me. | ||
| I used two referendum items this year. | ||
| But one of the things I've been saying is, you know, if this measure pass, if too many people vote yes on one instead of no on one, absentee balloting as we know it will get much more complicated. | ||
| And there's all kinds of ridiculous things that are thrown in there, like only one ballot collection box per community. | ||
| So we're a town of very many, we're a state of very many small towns. | ||
| Portland, Maine is our largest city, but it is 65,000 people. | ||
| And if you just have one collection spot, that doesn't make it any easier for the voters. | ||
| You're making it much more difficult. | ||
| And there's all kinds of different requirements about how you pick up the ballot, what you do. | ||
| We don't have voter fraud in our state. | ||
| We haven't had huge problems this. | ||
| All we have are some myth and lies that people are using to try to change this system. | ||
| So I hope Mainers get out in this off-year election and vote no-on-one. | ||
| So that's a plug to the whole country. | ||
| You all had to hear Maine's business there, but that's no on one. | ||
| More on Maine's business. | ||
| You talked about the impact of the shutdown in Acadia National Park and certainly the impacts of businesses around there that rely on tourism dollars in this time of year. | ||
| I wonder your thoughts on the Washington Post's lead editorial today. | ||
| The headline is that government shutdowns aren't painful enough to get them to end quickly. | ||
| The argument that they make is that most Americans really haven't noticed and haven't really grown too agitated yet about the government shutdown. | ||
| It's by design saying that if more critical functions were shut down, then shutdowns would end a lot quicker. | ||
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Yeah, it's interesting. | |
| I only got around to reading the headline and I pondered it for a bit, so now I'll go back and read it. | ||
| But I think you have a very, I mean, I think they're making a good point. | ||
| On the other hand, I don't want to do anything as an elected official to make people's lives more painful. | ||
| It's hard enough right now. | ||
| Dealing with the cost of living, housing, you know, child care, food costs, and now rising health care costs as well. | ||
| So, I mean, the idea that we would change the system to make it more painful is ridiculous, but I think they've got a point. | ||
| It's kind of this modified shutdown, unless you're directly a federal worker and you're one of the ones who gets furloughed that has to worry now about the pay cuts being permanent, which is a crazy aside. | ||
| Sorry, I even brought that up. | ||
| But anyway, you don't really experience it. | ||
| The average American doesn't really experience it. | ||
| You know, interestingly, there are also proposals out there that say there should never be a shutdown. | ||
| If the impasse happens, you go into a 10-day period that you can renegotiate in or another 10-day period. | ||
| And there's an argument for that too. | ||
| And one of the reasons I think we have the shutdown and don't go along with legislation like that that eliminates them altogether is because there's some negotiating power in it. | ||
| The two parties have to do this. | ||
| But why can't we be reasonable? | ||
| And why don't we step back as a federal government and look at some of these systems? | ||
| I've seen proposals come across our desk that say, what about a two-year budgeting process or appropriations process? | ||
| What about doing this in a different way? | ||
| I was a state legislator before I got into this many years ago. | ||
| And we had a two-year budgeting process. | ||
| So it was different. | ||
| You were sort of thinking ahead and you didn't have so many crises and deadlines always on top of you. | ||
| And frankly, in this very partisan atmosphere, as people know, we have a hard time getting those 12 bills passed every year. | ||
| And it's usually some sort of modification, partial shutdown. | ||
| So I think there's a point to that. | ||
| And I think that we are imposing on the American public something that reflects the fact that Congress has gotten less cooperative, less bipartisan, just doesn't function as well. | ||
| Time for just a couple more phone calls here. | ||
| This is Joseph in the Garden State Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Hey, how are you? | |
| Doing well. | ||
| You're on with Congresswoman Pingree. | ||
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Yeah, how you doing, Miss. | |
| Can I just make two quick points? | ||
| You were just talking about being non-American, not an American way, having the military in the cities. | ||
| You said that before. | ||
| Well, I didn't hear you say, is it American that the DOJ and the FBI spy on eight senators? | ||
| I don't think that's American. | ||
| I don't hear you saying anything about that. | ||
| And getting back to the shutdown, the shutdown is because Republicans don't want some of these hospitals to be taking money to pay for illegal immigration and their health care. | ||
| Everybody says, no, they don't get health care. | ||
| They don't get health care. | ||
| Miss, you live in Maine. | ||
| I grew up in New York City, grandson of an immigrant. | ||
| Nobody's going to tell me about immigration. | ||
| They go to the hospitals like it's healthcare and they're put on Medicaid. | ||
| Let me just make one point. | ||
| My mother is a retired nurse. | ||
| My father passed away. | ||
| He's a New York City fireman and a vet for this country. | ||
| My mother can't live by herself. | ||
| We have to pay the few bucks that she saved. | ||
| We have to pay every cent for medicine and for whatever Social Security doesn't really pay that much. | ||
| If it wasn't for my younger brother that's taking care of her, my mother would be screwed. | ||
| But an illegal alien can come into this country like before you were talking to somebody about amnesty. | ||
| They're supposed to go to a port of entry to get amnesty. | ||
| You get all these people walking around getting health care from hospitals, but my mother was married to a vet that served this country, doesn't get anything from the government, only the money that she put in for Medicare, which doesn't pay nothing. | ||
| Joseph, you bring up a lot of points. | ||
| Congresswoman Pam Bondi's hearing yesterday, emergency rooms treating undocumented immigrants, Medicaid and Medicare. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Lots of important questions there. | ||
| Thank you for calling in. | ||
| I also am a granddaughter of an immigrant, and my mom was a nurse, and my dad was an accountant. | ||
| So I sympathize with many of the things that you're bringing up. | ||
| And absolutely, everything you talk to us about in terms of how you get health care and your family gets health care, I agree. | ||
| It's a broken system. | ||
| We need huge reform here. | ||
| I've been a big proponent of negotiating for lower prices of prescription drugs ever since I was back in the state legislature. | ||
| We shouldn't pay the highest prices in the world. | ||
| It shouldn't be so difficult for your family to get by right here. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| No veteran should go without health care. | ||
| No one in this country should go without health care. | ||
| But you're wrong to say that undocumented immigrants automatically get health care. | ||
| The thing that Pam Bondi and other people have been mentioning was something passed by Ronald Reagan. | ||
| It's been a law for many years, and it says that if any individual comes into a hospital, no matter what, if they are in a serious car accident, if they're having a heart attack, you don't say, let me see your papers. | ||
| I'm not sure if I can treat you. | ||
| You treat them, and then the federal government reimburses you. | ||
| But they don't automatically go on the Medicare system or anything else. | ||
| You cannot be an undocumented immigrant in this country and collect health care. | ||
| That's just a lie. | ||
| The Republicans are using it to try to combat the very valid points that we're making on the Affordable Care App, premiums, on Medicaid costs, on hospital closures. | ||
| I have a hospital in Maine, Waterville Hospital that closed this year. | ||
| We've had other units closed. | ||
| It's a huge issue for all of us. | ||
| Honestly, we're all in this together. | ||
| We're all saying many of the same things. | ||
| And to try to say that, you know, we're the ones that are breaking up this systems. | ||
| We're the ones who are trying to reform it and try to keep it going. | ||
| We're desperately worried that by the end of the year, between the big ugly bill and these, the Republicans' unwillingness to extend these tax credits, we're going to have millions of people in this country without health care coverage. | ||
| And we're going to go back to a system where hospitals are trying to provide charity care, don't get sufficient Medicaid funding, and they're going broke. | ||
| Whether you live in the middle of the city or out in a rural area like mine, you're going to have some huge problems to face. | ||
| Congresswoman Shelley Pingree, 1st District of Maine, Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. | ||
| We'll let you get to your day. | ||
| Appreciate you stopping by the Washington Journal. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| Take care. | ||
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| At 12 noon Eastern, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear President Trump's appeal of a judge's order blocking the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. | ||
| On C-SPAN 2, live at 10 a.m. Eastern, the U.S. Senate returns to work on government funding legislation to reopen the government. | ||
| Senate lawmakers have failed six times to agree to a funding measure that extends health care subsidies. | ||
| Lawmakers will also work on President Trump's nomination of Jennifer Lee Mascott of Delaware to be a U.S. Circuit Court judge. | ||
| On C-SPAN 3, live at 10 a.m. Eastern, a ceremony marking the anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. | ||
| Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, along with Philadelphia Mayor Sherelle Parker, will be part of that celebration, which concludes with a parade of ships along the Delaware River. | ||
| And at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, a discussion on the collapse of Steward Healthcare, a consortium of 31 hospitals in eight states that went bankrupt last year, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy will be part of that conversation. | ||
| These events all stream live on the free C-SPAN Now video app or online at c-span.org. | ||
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