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And investment savings. | |
| Off the floor, talks continue between both sides of the aisle on how to fund the federal government beyond the January 30th deadline to avoid a shutdown. | ||
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| As Congress returns to Washington for the second session of the 119th Congress, lawmakers face a January 30th deadline to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year and avoid a shutdown. | ||
| President Trump begins the second year of his term with major foreign and legal issues in focus, including Venezuela and the tariff case before the Supreme Court. | ||
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| Voters will also decide 33 U.S. Senate races and 36 gubernatorial contests. | ||
| High-profile mayoral elections are coming in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans, cities where clashes with the Trump administration have helped shape national debates. | ||
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| Following their weekly caucus meeting, House Democrats spoke to reporters about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement activities, recent U.S. military operation in Venezuela, and the Justice Department's investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. | ||
| Good morning I'm pleased to be joined as always with Vice Chair Ted Liu and Democratic National Security Task Force co-chairs Representatives Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, and Derek Tran. | ||
| Nearly a year after Donald Trump and Republicans came into power, America is less safe and more expensive. | ||
| While working families across the country struggle to put food on the table and afford health care, Trump is more concerned with inflaming tensions both home and abroad. | ||
| The question that Americans continue to ask is how does intervening in foreign countries, threatening military action, on NATO allies, or lying about the shooting of an American citizen in Minnesota do anything to bring down costs. | ||
| It's clear that Donald Trump is unserious about strengthening our economy or making life more affordable for the American people. | ||
| Meanwhile, Democrats are laser-focused on delivering real results for hardworking families here in the United States, and we aren't letting being in the minority stop us. | ||
| Under Leader Jeffries' leadership, House Democrats have been able to use the few tools that we have at our disposal to take meaningful legislative action. | ||
| In 2025, Democrats successfully moved three discharge petitions forward, restoring federal collective bargaining rights, releasing the Epstein files, and extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits. | ||
| Let's just stop for a minute and recognize the significance of what that meant for millions of families. | ||
| But while we continue to get questions about compromises and coming off of our three years that we asked for Democratic leadership and Leader Jeffries decided that we would push this proposal for a three-year clean extension, and we passed it with strong bipartisan support. | ||
| People said it couldn't be done, but after months of sounding that alarm, we delivered bipartisan solutions to the House to keep insurance affordable. | ||
| This won't be the last time that Democrats will work to break through the partisan divide to deliver for our constituents. | ||
| Now it's up to Leader Thune to join Democrats in sending this legislation to the president's desk so millions of Americans can afford health care in 2026. | ||
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Next up, Vice Chair Ted Luke. | |
| Thank you, Chairman Aguilar. | ||
| My prayers go out to Renee Goode and to her family and friends. | ||
| She was a U.S. citizen, a Christian, and a mother of three. | ||
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| This tragedy was completely preventable. | ||
| And I asked the federal government to cooperate with local and state officials who are doing investigations. | ||
| We need to have fair and transparent investigations. | ||
| And when federal officials do not cooperate with state and local officials in the investigation, it leads American people to think, what are you hiding? | ||
| Are you covering something up? | ||
| So for full transparency, we need everyone to cooperate to get to the bottom of what happened. | ||
| And I also asked ICE leaders and the administration to tone down the rhetoric. | ||
| ICE Commander Greg Bovino last night made a post that essentially called protesters, quote, cannon fodder. | ||
| He needs to delete that post or he needs to resign. | ||
| The American people are not cannon fodder. | ||
| We have the absolute First Amendment right to witness what ICE is doing publicly, to film what ICE is doing publicly, to photograph what ICE is doing publicly. | ||
| We are protected by the Constitution, and if Greg Bovino and the administration doesn't turn on their rhetoric, it's going to cause more people to get killed. | ||
| Now I'd like to talk about Venezuela. | ||
| Donald Trump posted that he is the acting president of Venezuela. | ||
| Now I want to tell you what a great job the acting president of Venezuela is doing because the U.S. Embassy this weekend literally sent out a warning notice asking all Americans to evacuate immediately because the United States government cannot keep Americans safe in Venezuela. | ||
| There are roving militias going around trying to find U.S. citizens. | ||
| And the reason Acting President of Venezuela, Donald Trump, sucks at running Venezuela is because he sucks at running the United States of America. | ||
| Health care costs are skyrocketing, food prices are increasing, and we have energy prices like electricity surging in many places. | ||
| We ask Donald Trump to be the president of America, not the president of Venezuela. | ||
| I'm honored today that we are joined by amazing veterans. | ||
| I happen to be a veteran myself. | ||
| We've got Derek Tran, Maggie Goodlander, and Jason Crowe. | ||
| I'm honored to introduce Jason Crow, who prior to Congress already served America in so many ways as a combat veteran, earning many recognitions, including the Bronze Star. | ||
| And he's a great representative from Colorado. | ||
| Jason? | ||
| Thank you, Ted. | ||
| As a three-time combat veteran, I get pretty damn hot when a five-time draft dodger like Donald Trump pounds his chests and bang the war drums in Washington talking about sending boots in the ground. | ||
| We're not even a year into this administration, and President Trump has bombed seven countries. | ||
| He doesn't seem to see a problem that doesn't think he can bomb his way out of. | ||
| I learned years ago that when elites like Donald Trump bang the war drums and pound their chests in Washington, D.C. and talk about sending troops into the ground or into combat, he's not talking about his kids. | ||
| He's not talking about all of his minions' kids. | ||
| He's talking about kids like me and the people that I grew up in working class areas, rural places around the country that have to pick up rifles, jump in the tanks or helicopters, and do the thing and do the tough work. | ||
| Well, America is over it. | ||
| America is over the $3 trillion we've spent, the quagmires of failed nation building, the sending of our sons and daughters and brothers and sisters to enrich oil executives. | ||
| America is over endless adventurism using our military because they want their infrastructure rebuilt. | ||
| They want quality, affordable health care. | ||
| They want to be able to afford groceries. | ||
| They want to be able to afford a home. | ||
| They want to be able to send their kids to school. | ||
| Those are the things that we are relentlessly focused on as a democratic caucus. | ||
| Now, don't get me wrong. | ||
| There is a time for strength. | ||
| There is a time for standing by our allies. | ||
| And there are certainly times where our military has to go to keep us safe. | ||
| But what have we accomplished in Venezuela? | ||
| The Maduro regime remains intact. | ||
| Sitting here today, two weeks after this mission, the Venezuelan people are under more oppression than they were before because of the crackdowns. | ||
| Americans are at greater risk. | ||
| The cartels are running rampant and free with no crackdown whatsoever. | ||
| And the drugs that actually are killing our children, fentanyl and meth, don't even come from Venezuela. | ||
| They come from other countries. | ||
| So I want to know how many billions of dollars this administration has spent to remove somebody that Donald Trump simply does not like and put in another dictator that he thinks will do his bidding. | ||
| I want to know, and the American taxpayers deserve to know, how much time and money has been spent on their behalf. | ||
| America is over it. | ||
| We're going to push for war powers reform. | ||
| We're going to reassert our constitutional authority because it is not just our right, it is our duty to stand in the breach and take the votes and tell any president, Republican or Democrat, that you can't continue to send our men and women around the world into harm's way without a debate and vote in this body. | ||
| So with that, it is my pleasure to introduce one of our most stellar members, a Navy veteran, close personal friend, a servant leadership from the state of New Hampshire, Maggie Goodlander. | ||
| Well, thank you, Congressman Crowe. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman Aguilar, Vice Chair Liu. | ||
| My grandfather used to talk about the six Ps. | ||
| Prior planning prevents piss-poor performance. | ||
| Those are important. | ||
| We're here, I think what brings us here today are the three C's, the Constitution, common sense, and costs. | ||
| The Constitution is the document that binds us across generations as Americans. | ||
| It is a document that contains our highest ideals, but at bottom, it's a job description. | ||
| And one thing that's crystal clear is that under our Constitution, it is Congress, not the President, not the Department of Justice, not the Department of Defense, and it is the Department of Defense because Congress has not changed the name of that department. | ||
| It is Congress, crystal clear, that has the responsibility, the sacred responsibility to declare war. | ||
| We have a bipartisan war powers resolution, and we saw five Republicans join together with Democrats in the Senate to speak with one voice and to say that if the President wants to go to war in Venezuela, he's got to come to the Congress first and get authorization. | ||
| It is a simple statement rooted in our Constitution, and there's a lot of common sense in this because the costs of war, in trillions of dollars that we've spent in our lifetimes alone, in the tens of thousands of lives that have been forever changed, the thousands of lives lost, these are the most consequential decisions that a government can make. | ||
| And common sense is not something that the President has supplied to the American people, and nothing undermines public trust more than an inability to answer the basic question, why would we go to war in Venezuela? | ||
| What is this going to accomplish for the American people? | ||
| Well, look, we know that replacing one thug with another is not a good reason to go to war. | ||
| There's no common sense in that. | ||
| And the President has got to answer questions, and as members of the Armed Services Committee, we will be relentless in seeking answers to the basic questions that the American people deserve. | ||
| At the end of the day, the costs that we are asking the American people to bear in the middle of the most acute affordability crisis in generations is something that every person who's taken a note to our Constitution has got to account for. | ||
| I was talking to a veteran in my hometown just a few days ago. | ||
| You know, budgets are a statement of principles, and families across this country are feeling the squeeze and the pain of an affordability crisis like never before. | ||
| People who have put their lives on the line and served our country are having to make some of the most painful choices you could ever imagine a person having to make. | ||
| The choice of whether to pay rent or to keep a car, the choice of which medical appointments this amazing veteran who served our country is going to be able to actually afford in the year ahead. | ||
| This is just not right. | ||
| It is dead wrong. | ||
| And we are here to speak with one voice to say to our Republican colleagues, we urge you to join us. | ||
| To the Speaker, he should bring our bipartisan war powers resolution to a vote as soon as possible because every member of this body should have to take a vote on this most consequential decision, life or death decisions that forever change the course of our history. | ||
| So I'm grateful to be standing alongside you today. | ||
| And I'm proud to turn it over to my friend and colleague, who I'm delighted to be leading this task force alongside, together with Congressman Crowe, Congressman Derek Tran. | ||
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| Good morning. | ||
| I want to thank Chair Aguilar and Vice Chair Liu for gathering us for this important discussion that we're having. | ||
| I'm Representative Derek Tran. | ||
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I'm an Army veteran and I am a proud co-chair of the House Democratic National Security Task Force. | |
| Most importantly though, I represent the people of Orange and LA counties in California's 45th district. | ||
| In the 10 days since President Trump took unilateral military action in Venezuela without consulting Congress, we have been left with more questions than answers. | ||
| What does this mean for our troops at home and abroad? | ||
| Can we maintain the international alliances that help keep our service members safe? | ||
| Is the Trump administration, I'm sorry, is the Trump administration more concerned with the needs of oil companies than the American people? | ||
| Look, when I enlisted in the Army Reserve when I was 18 years old, I did so because I'm a proud American. | ||
| When my president sends my brothers and sisters into harm's way, we have to trust that he's acting in the best interests of the American people, not for oil profits, not for big donors, not for the next election. | ||
| What my families in my district is begging for is relief at the grocery store. | ||
| They need child care that doesn't break the bank. | ||
| They are begging for houses that they can afford and health care that does not drain their life savings. | ||
| The people on this stage is ready to get to work. | ||
| House Democrats are ready to get to work. | ||
| We're not going to stand for another costly forever war while our constituents struggle to pay their bills. | ||
| Thank you so much, and I yield to the chairman for questions. | ||
| Thank you, Derek. | ||
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| I want to ask about DHS funding. | ||
| What is the posture of the politics now towards a year-long TR and DHS funding versus putting conditions somehow through negotiation? | ||
| Well, we like passing appropriations bills, but the appropriations bills have to be fair. | ||
| They have to have reasonable allocations. | ||
| Democrats put additional language forward to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. | ||
| It's not language that they could support. | ||
| And so ultimately, the Homeland Bill fell out of the package that we have in front of us this week. | ||
| We want accountability and oversight. | ||
| I know Donald Trump and Christy Noam and their friends do not want accountability and oversight, but House Democrats want accountability and oversight to ICE. | ||
| They should have to notify Congress. | ||
| They should have to come to Congress. | ||
| They should have to continue to testify to Congress as to what they are doing. | ||
| But more importantly, they need to look out for the American people. | ||
| Right now, they are terrorizing people in the streets of this country. | ||
| They are hurting innocent individuals. | ||
| They are detaining U.S. citizens. | ||
| They are killing people. | ||
| That's what House Democrats want answers to. | ||
| And if DHS isn't willing to provide those answers, Democrats will continue to use every tool we can in order to push for them. | ||
| So it is not part of the package. | ||
| It could be in front of us in future packages. | ||
| That's a decision for Rosa DeLoro and Tom Cole. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. | |
| President Trump will be in Detroit today, speaking on the economy. | ||
| I wanted to make it your reaction to the fact that he's now kind of turning his attention away from the international affairs that he's been focused on for most of the last year and will now be trying to focus on the economy and put forward a lot of affordability proposals that he believe will help Republicans as you want in some of their terms. | ||
| Yeah, I think we'll see, Michael. | ||
| He tends to distract himself when he starts talking about affordability. | ||
| But if he wants to talk about how we lower the costs that people face, whether that's credit costs or housing costs, Democrats are all ears. | ||
| Pleased that he picked up the phone and called Elizabeth Warren after her speech yesterday. | ||
| If he wants to meet with House Democrats or Senate Democrats, I would imagine he knows how to find us. | ||
| And we will carry forward our focus and our mission on lowering the costs that people face. | ||
| But if he is set on using the Department of Justice to weaponize to go after the Fed, to go after the Fed chair, we're not in for that. | ||
| And so the problem is he continues to distract himself and we'll see what this speech is about. | ||
| It is likely a speech about affordability and then who knows what he says or posts once he gets back on Air Force One. | ||
| That uncertainty is what's wrong for the American people. | ||
| That uncertainty means we aren't talking about affordability. | ||
| We aren't talking about real solutions, and that's the concern that House Democrats have. | ||
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| Vice Chair. | ||
| Donald Trump lies all the time. | ||
| He just recently said he doesn't remember saying he was going to give $2,000 stimulus checks to all Americans, which he did say, by the way. | ||
| Now he's backtracking on that. | ||
| And then he's going to go to Detroit. | ||
| I don't know why we would take what he says seriously because it's his policies that are jacking up prices. | ||
| His tariffs have increased the prices on cars. | ||
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| His tariffs have increased the prices on food. | ||
| His tariffs have increases the prices on a number of items people brought during the holidays. | ||
| So unless he reverses his policies, these prices are going to keep on increasing and increasing and increasing. | ||
| And his focus is elsewhere as acting president of Venezuela. | ||
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It goes to your that the Republican majority has grown increasingly slim. | |
| There are a number of persistent attendance issues on the Republican side, which has effectively gotten rid of the margin. | ||
| What's the Democrat strategy? | ||
| Is there one to ensure full attendance on every single vote to maybe take advantage of this? | ||
| Our strategy is simple: show up and vote if it can help the American public. | ||
| We talk about it every day in every meeting, and pleased that House Democrats showed up. | ||
| 213 House Democrats showed up last week to lower the health care costs for the American people. | ||
| It's those types of wins that are so beneficial to lower the costs, as the Vice Chair said, that people face. | ||
| It's up to Republicans as to whether they want to work with us or not. | ||
| 17 Republicans joined those efforts in that discharge petition. | ||
| But we're going to keep showing up and coming to work, and that's what we'll continue to stress to our colleagues. | ||
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Today, the Clintons announced that they will not be following the subpoena with the House Oversight Committee. | |
| What is the caucus' reaction to the Clintons' decision, and what's the path going forward? | ||
| I don't think there's any oversight, Democrats, here, but that's a decision that obviously we just saw. | ||
| Republicans continue to distract from the American people. | ||
| They continue to want to focus on what doesn't matter. | ||
| This is the same group that said for months they didn't want to release the Epstein files and that nothing was there. | ||
| And so now they want to embrace this and score political points with testimony. | ||
| That's a decision for the Clintons to make. | ||
| But House Democrats are focused on one, the administration carrying out the law to release the Epstein files, no matter what they say or who they name, but scoring political points and bringing people in for testimony. | ||
| That's just something that House Republicans want to do to take our eye off the ball, take the American people's eye off the ball. | ||
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On the Congressional Stock Trading Committee, obviously it's getting a markup tomorrow. | |
| I know that there are a number of members in your conference who are in Caucasus who are very disappointed that it's not as robust as the bipartisan ones that they agreed to. | ||
| However, Republicans are arguing that at least it is something. | ||
| Do you have a sense on whether are you encouraging Democrats to vote for this? | ||
| Is this being whipped at all? | ||
| Did it come up in conference today? | ||
| Didn't come up today. | ||
| This is obviously something that's coming before the House Administration Committee. | ||
| We will follow the guidance and follow closely the questions that are asked in the markup from House Administration Democrats. | ||
| We were serious about stamping out corruption in Congress. | ||
| These are things that the American people feel are shameful and awful and everything that's wrong with this institution. | ||
| And I don't know if additional disclosure is enough. | ||
| But we will look at the package. | ||
| We will judge it on its merits. | ||
| We will look at the questions and the amendments that are offered within committee. | ||
| And as a caucus, at that point, we will have a discussion as to where we go. | ||
| We're a little early in that process, but count me in that category that wishes that it would have been a more robust package. | ||
| But we'll see what emerges out of committee. | ||
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The President has just said that help is coming to Iran. | |
| How worried are you that we're about to see another military intervention without congressional oversight? | ||
| And what do you say to the Iranian people? | ||
| We want America to intervene. | ||
| I'll ask Vice Chair and maybe Representative Crowe to also chime in. | ||
| The people of Iran are bravely standing up and speaking out against this brutal regime, but the President does not have the authority to go in, and this is part of this pattern. | ||
| We don't know if this post is policy, but it's something that all of us are very mindful of. | ||
| And we want the people of Iran to be safe. | ||
| We don't want people exercising their opinions to die in the streets. | ||
| But the President needs to consult with Congress on actions that involve the United States military. | ||
| I agree with Chairman Aguilar. | ||
| We should absolutely support the people of Iran. | ||
| They are fighting back against a brutal regime that has repressed them. | ||
| It's killed them. | ||
| This regime is now experiencing what happens when you're authoritarian and repressive. | ||
| The people are going to rise up. | ||
| And we should do everything we can. | ||
| Now, if the president wants to use military force, under our Constitution, that requires authorization from Congress. | ||
| And I'm sure Congress is happy to have that debate, but you've got to have that debate. | ||
| You can't just use military force without congressional authorization. | ||
| Well, we completely stand with the people of Iran who are yearning for freedom and democracy. | ||
| I mean, they are victims of this oppressive, violent regime. | ||
| And there are many ways for us to support the Iranian people short of military action because it's not in America's best interest to start a war with Iran. | ||
| In fact, it's not even in the Iranian people's best interest for the United States to go to war with Iran. | ||
| It is highly unfortunate, though, that the Trump administration and Donald Trump have spent the last year dismantling many of the tools and the agencies and the departments and the things that we have at our disposal to support the Iranian people and the people around the world who are in exactly this type of situation. | ||
| like U.S. aid, like our communications capabilities. | ||
| So many of the tools, the soft power tools of the United States government that we would use to support people who are yearning for freedom and democracy have been dismantled and gutted by this administration. | ||
| That said, there are still mechanisms to support short of war. | ||
| And this is exactly the point why we're standing here, is we don't believe that this administration or any administration should start a war with a foreign country unless this body debates it and votes on it. | ||
| That's exactly why for 20 years we spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives and failed in nation building and it ended poorly. | ||
| So support the Iranian people, do so with the tools that we have available, but military conflict would not serve the interests of the Iranian people or the American people. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| The Public Advent Committee released their framework for a reconciliation 2.0 bill today. | ||
| And I wanted to just get your reaction to that and whether you think a reconciliation bill is something that Democrats are going to have to contend with this year, heading before the midterms. | ||
| That's something for Republicans to debate and discuss. | ||
| We will respond if that's the route that they go. | ||
| But what we won't stand for is their continued assault on health care. | ||
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| To pay for tax cuts for their billionaire cronies and friends, they cut a trillion dollars out of the health care budget. | ||
| We said that was what was going to happen. | ||
| When they talked about reconciliation 10 months ago here in this room, we said they were going after Medicaid. | ||
| Steve Scalese goes on the floor. | ||
| He says, nowhere in this does, in this budget document does it say Medicaid is cut. | ||
| We knew they were going to cut it. | ||
| If that's what's going to happen, count us out. | ||
| If this is just a project that Republicans want to do to make themselves look good so they can say that they're talking about health care, count us out. | ||
| If this cuts costs that their billionaire friends have to pay and reduces taxes, count us out. | ||
| But if they want a process that's about bipartisan solutions, we've proven time and time again, including three times just in the last few months, that we're willing to go through that process. | ||
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I'm going to go back to the issue as far as the ICE agents are concerned. | |
| A number of municipalities within your districts simply don't are ICER ICE detainers. | ||
| And ICE simply says that a lot of the chaos that's happening within the streets happened because a number of these individuals who they are going after are being simply released and they are convicted criminals with violent convictions. | ||
| And if they were simply held, they could pick them up and deport them. | ||
| And then the issues that are happening in the streets would be happening. | ||
| Would you agree that these detainers should be honored within the municipalities, within your districts? | ||
| Did Renee Goode have a warrant? | ||
| Was she an undocumented now? | ||
| You asked your question. | ||
| Some of the individuals, some of the individuals, some of the individuals that are being scooped up do not have detainers. | ||
| They are not undocumented individuals. | ||
| House Democrats firmly believe that violent criminals should not be on our streets. | ||
| And if there are undocumented individuals who are violent criminals, they should be deported. | ||
| That is our position. | ||
| Now, if you're asking if we support local law enforcement being part of this Gestapo of rounding up individuals, our answer is no. | ||
| Our answer is: local officials should be responsible to protect their local communities. | ||
| That's what local law enforcement does. | ||
| I was a local mayor. | ||
| Many of our colleagues come from local government. | ||
| That is the responsibility of local government is to keep people safe. | ||
| The federal government's responsibility is to exercise what you're talking about, and that's the job that we take issue with in this case with ICE. | ||
| They have an ability to detain and they have an ability to deport folks. | ||
| It should follow a process. | ||
| It should include getting warrants for individuals, judicial warrants, not fake phony ICE warrants. | ||
| When they want to grab somebody, they have a process to do that, and it should be to use the courts in order to execute warrants that keep this country safe. | ||
| They are choosing not to do that. | ||
| They are choosing chaos in the streets. | ||
| They are choosing lawlessness. | ||
| That's what they are choosing. | ||
| And so it's our job to provide accountability and oversight when they aren't following the law. | ||
| House Democrats stand behind that. | ||
| We won't apologize for that. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
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Earlier today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases, challenging state laws that bar transgender women and girls from competing in female sports. | |
| In Little v. Heacocks, the court will determine if an Idaho law violated a transgender athlete's 14th Amendment rights after barring her from joining Boise State's cross-country team. | ||
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And in West Virginia v. BPJ, the court heard argument on whether a West Virginia ban on transgender athletes in women's sports violates the Constitution and Title IX protections. | |
| We'll have the arguments tonight starting at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app and online at c-span.org. | ||
| As Congress returns to Washington for the second session of the 119th Congress, lawmakers face a January 30th deadline to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year and avoid a shutdown. | ||
| President Trump begins the second year of his term with major foreign and legal issues in focus, including Venezuela and the tariff case before the Supreme Court. | ||
| Attention is also turning to 2026. | ||
| The midterm elections are ahead, with every seat in the U.S. House on the ballot. | ||
| All 435 voting members and five non-voting delegates. | ||
| Many candidates will compete in newly redrawn districts, including in states like Texas. | ||
| Voters will also decide 33 U.S. Senate races and 36 gubernatorial contests. | ||
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| So you interviewed the other night. | ||
| I watched it about two o'clock in the morning. | ||
| There was a little thing called C-SPAN, which I don't know how many people were watching. | ||
| Don't worry, you were in primetime too, but they happen to have a little rerun. | ||
| Do you really think that we don't remember what just happened last week? | ||
| Thank goodness for C-SPAN, and we all should review the tape. | ||
| Everyone wonders when they're watching C-SPAN what the conversations are on the floor. | ||
| I'm about to read to you something that was published by C-SPAN. | ||
| There's a lot of things that Congress fights about that they disagree on. | ||
| We can all watch that on C-SPAN. | ||
| Millions of people across the country tuned into C-SPAN. | ||
| That was a made-for-C-SPAN moment. | ||
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If you watch on C-SPAN, you're going to see me physically across the aisle every day, just trying to build relationships and try to understand their perspective and find common ground. | |
| And welcome aboard to everybody watching at home. | ||
| We know C-SPAN covers this live as well. | ||
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We appreciate that. | |
| And one can only hope that he's able to watch C-SPAN on a black and white television set in his prison cell. | ||
| This is being carried live by C-SPAN. | ||
| It is being watched not only in this country, but it's being watched around the world right now. | ||
| Mike said before I happened to listen to him, he was on C-SPAN 1. | ||