if the congress within 21 days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or if congress is not in session within 21 days after congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both houses that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the president -- the vice president shall discontinue to discharge the same as acting president. otherwise, the president shall resume the powers and duties of his office. >> the gentleman from california, mr. mcinerney. >> amendment 26, section 1, the right of citizens of the united states who are 18 years of age or older to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or any state on account of age. section 2, that congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. >> the gentleman from georgia, mr. woodall. >> amendment 27, no law bearing the compensation forhe services of the senators or representatives shall take effect until election of representatives shall have intervened. >>> on friday afternoon, members of the house and senate will meet for a jo

more than 10% of the congress. 25% it of the democratic caucus. this congress c.b.c. members will serve as ranking members of key committees. strong, able, grounded voices. since its founding in 1971, the c.b.c. has become as nancy pointed and as we all referenced, the conscience of he congress. and the congress and the country need a conscience. need a strong voice for principled execution of the laws and adoption of the laws. as our friends, ranking member john conyers remembers, he was among 13 original members the -- at a time when some in congress wanted to close the book on the civil rights movement of the passage of landmark legislation of the 1960's. but he can also attest that the work of civil rights and economic justice was far from completed, and today remains so. if i were in my church today, i would say do i hear an amen? and the creation of the c.b.c. was a powerful reminder to the congress and to the country that the civil rights movement and the efforts to secure justice and equal opportunity for all would continue to this day. very frankly, some of u

the 10,015th congress 15th congress will have the largest cbc in history with 49 members. [applause] and this means that the people making decisions for all americans will better reflect the diversity of our nation from its inception to its present dayday, the cbc has used its considerable political power to elevate and expand the public policy debate on several issues impacting the black community. today's ceremony also embodies the cbc core mission, values and institutional initiative to advance the global black community by develing leaders and rming policy and educating the public. while the cbc grows in numbers, the remains of a lack of diversity and inclusion when it comes to senior staff placement in sin and congressional offices. and cbc is committed to doing its part to change the landscape of the capitol hill and we are doing so with one of our newest initiatives, emerge 535. launched -- [applause] thank you. launched in 2013 and continuing over the next several years, the cbc f will expand opportunities for emerging african-american leaders by providing 535 inte

this is all the congresses, all the sessions of congress that have happened since 1947. those blue lines show the number of bills that each congress was able to pass. the last line with the arrow pointing to it, that is the congress that comes to an end today. you will notice that congress over the last few years has been a little stunted, is probably the polite way to put it, since the republicans took over the house in their big wave election in 2010. look at that, the three congresses since then, the 114th congress just ended today, those three are the least productive congresses of all time. since the republicans took control of the house in 2010, the three congresses since then rank first, second, and third as the least productive congresses we've ever had, since anybody started tracking the productivity of congresses at the end of world war ii. this congress just ending today also had the lowest confirmation rate for civilian nominees in modern american history. for the first time since the modern budget process was created in 1974, this congress for the first time

time and time again from congress to congress lawmakers come down to this floor to talk about the need for tax reform. as a current small business owner for all of my working life, i understand what is willing small businesses firsthand. since i came to congress i have been outspoken on the need to reform our tax code, and i have a proposal to make it happen. my tax reform plan will simplify our tax code. it will give job creators the tools they need to succeed and empower america's greatest asset, the american worker. my tax reform plan will do what it's name says it will do, jump-start america. today the internal revenue code is often called complicated, uncompetitive, and unfair. rightly -- rightfully so. according to tax laws and regulations have grown to more than 10 million words in length. imagine how much easier tax season would be for all of us if we sha runge our individual income tax thresholds to two brackets. what if our tax code put american taxpayers first. in other words treated us like a customer. the united states has the highest corporate tax rate in the free world.

in the 80th congress. the 80th congress being the first congress in which both houses were controlled by republicans since the semi first, -- 71st. with almost no opportunity for debate. almost no hearings at all. it was introduced, brought onto the floor. there was some debate. some amendments were passed. it was passed by a coalition of solid republicans. i don't think a single republican did not vote for it. of southern democrats who were hostile to president truman's civil rights policies, who could be seen as helping the democrats did not the whiteo hold house. one of the reasons for the haste with which the amendment was rushed through congress was that around the country large number of republican state legislators were still in session. if the amendment emerge from congress in time, it could be rushed to those legislatures and ratified in order to get the bill into the constitution within the next few years before public opinion might shift back to the democrats. that is what happened. it was final

hayden: did congress. -- the congress. it is a 10 year term. the librarian is the only appointee that is a presidential appointment. the other 3200 people that work at the library are government employees, federal employees. there is not an appointment process. when nine inch in congress, there are appropriations committees that have oversight, and quite a bit of interaction with congress. susan: is there still a joint committee? mr. ferriero: yes, in both houses. susan: are they active? ms. hayden: they are active. what has been hard in working in congress is the interest of most of the legislators in history. it was striking during my confirmation process, seen how much the legislators knew about cement and wanted to their place in history. susan: what is your operating budget? how much of that is federally subsidized? ms. hayden: just about all of it. $632 million. the smithsonian has done a wonderful job of working with patriotic philanthropy. the library has been relatively new to that. the fact that we are in this coolidgea gift of mrs. w

the republican congress and the republican congress already is voting. they are already acting to start to get rid of the affordable care act. whether or not you like the affordable care act, it's inarguably true that tens of millions of americans have health insurance or are otherwise benefiting personally from that legislation from what president obama and the democrats did when they put that into place. there are tens and millions of american who is have health insurance who didn't have it before. there are many american who is know that they only have health insurance because of that legislation. and there are many americans who will tell you that they are only alive because they have health insurance and because they have the protections afforded by that legislation. it's a life and death fit. and when you take something like that, that is a life and death thing for a lot of people, you take that away, do not be surprised when people are moved to act. so that is one thing that is going on. the other thing that's going on, though, is about this presi

if your objection is about your member of congress, take it to another member of congress. or you can file a public complaint with the office of congressional ethics but you can't hide behind -- you can't do it anonymously. and then the ethics committee will be doing oversight of the office of congressional ethics so they're folded in together and there are just some rules that take away the things they were doing that are unethical. it unethical to leak confidential information to the public. >> even having this conversation and you making this argument and defending the moves that you made, do you worry it going to make congress sound frankly a little bit tone deaf as they're kicking off this new session when what you want to focus on is not the question of ethics concerns but other issues? >> that's true. i'm worried about that. >> you worry about feeling tone deaf here. >> and that was a significant debate in the closed door session last night people are saying we don't need to take on this debate because we have important work to do. but the bottom line is what's going

the first successful effort to expand congress' power and-n counting did not come until 1865, when congress adopted a joint house-senate rule on the subject. under the rule, no electoral vote that incurred an objection could be counted unless both houses agreed. the joint rule was tempered by the electoral count act of 1887 which still governs the counting process to this day. the law allows an objection signed by house and a senate member. however, under the count act, unless there is a case of double returns, no electoral vote regularly given and lawfully certified shall be rejected. in 1969, dr. lloyd bailey, a republican elector from north carolina, was faithless. and the governor of north carolina certified the state's electoral certificate with knowledge of the vote. the house and senate thoroughly debated whether his vote should be counted but ultimately voted to reject the challenge. opponents of the challenge in my view properly argued that congress lacked the power to exclude dr. bailey's vote under the count act, an more importantly congress had no power to exclude his vote under

that the congress made to end poverty. congress expressed it too well i believe in 1964 when they said that it is the policy of the united states to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this nation. this is the richest nation in the world. the anti-poverty program has had many achievements and also has some failures. but we must not cripple it after three years of trying to solve the human problems that have been with us and building up among us for generations. i believe that the congress this year will want to improve the administration's poverty program by issuinging it to other administrations, and we should continue to do so until we have broken the back of poverty throughout this land. i believe, and i hope that the next administration, i hope that they believe is that the key to success in this evident is jobs. it is work for the people who want to work. and the budget for fiscal 1970, i shall recommend a total of $3,500 million for the job training program. and that is five times as much as we

this year, i'm proposing that the congress provide the full $300 million that the congress last year authorized to do just that. [ applause ] and i hope the congress will put the money where the authorization is. [ applause ] i believe this is an essential contribution to justice and the public order in the united states. and i hope these grants can be made to the states, and they can be used effectively to reduce the crime rate in this country. but all of this is only a small part of the total effort that must be made, i think chiefly by the local governments throughout the nation. if we expect to reduce the total crime that we all detest. frankly, as i leave the office of the presidency, one of my greatest disappointments is our failure to secure passage of the licensing and registration act for firearms. [ applause ] i think if we had passed that act it would have reduced the incidence of crime. and i believe that the congress should adopt such a law. and i hope that it will at a not too distant date. 2340 in order to meet our long-standing commitment to make government as efficie

yesterday it was trying to make congress even more corrupt than congress already is. tomorrow it's going to be something bad, too. so you have the power to just say this is unacceptable and we've seen that happening all over the country now. you're talking about a bubbling up movement. we're seeing it. yesterday was the first proof of concept and we'll see more of that. >> have you seen in terms of the direct response to this, enough posted online so you know how many people have downloaded it and read it but in terms of groups forming or other people using this work? >> it's phenomenal. we've been blown away. we put up a google doc two and a half weeks ago, google immediately crashed. we threw up a web site so people had a way to download it and get the information. in the last two weeks we've had this a up there have been over 600,000 page views, 130,000 people have downloaded the guide but like you said the really exciting thing is that there are all these groups spreading out across the country and popping up. we've had in the last 24 hours since we've been collec

>> congress will consider very infrastructureof package. we have heard the numbers floating around, $1 trillion of infrastructure poses. bet do you think needs to written into that proposal to ensure that resilience is ?onsidered or is there a way craig: if we are to make these investments, let's build not only to capacity issues but to the risk profiles we see coming. in some cases, this has nothing to do with it and more to do with the understanding of seismic risk and as better how dotion comes out, they perform, and yet we do not want an earth quake to occur and then find out we should have the better and then come back and say there was actually data. lookisk profile should be at your known personal risk, look to the future and what kind of objections that may look like and incorporate that into engineering. future and resiliency against oreats, whether it is cyber, just changes to the way we operate in use things, that will change risk profiles. is a rolethink there for congress to ensure some of these considerations are taken into ac

congress took a pass. they ducked their responsibility of being accountable for all legislation and found a way to be producing less than 10% of the legislation that exists even in a given year. so the king amendment says, over a period of a decade, 10% a year at a minimum, congress will have to review all the regulations and the people from across america, we the people, will weigh in on that regulation and then an even better part of this, not om will we be accountable here in congress, and we should be, but when the bureaucrats, the nameless, faceless bureaucrats refuse to listen to our constituents, there will be a little bug in the back of their ear saying, you know what, this constituent that may be losing their business over this regulation, the next stop they make will be with their congressman and these regulations that we promulgated are going to be subject -- are going to be subject then being repealed by the united states congress as they should be. support the king amendment. it puts the autho

the two houses of congress met. they voted down the objection and then they resumed their ceremonies. so that is the way any objection would be handled. it seems highly unlikely, given especially the republicans controlled both the house and the senate, that any such objections would be sustained in separate votes by the republican house and the republican senate. >> host: how unusual is in this circumstance? it seems normally this would probably just a matter of formality, right? most americans probably didn't even realize the role of congress in certifying the presidency. >> guest: that's exactly right. the last time this happened which was four years ago more or less today, the congressional record noted that the entire session took just 23 minutes. it's interesting for super congress nerds come it can be interesting. it's always an interesting situation when the vice president who is charged with presiding over the ceremony is a player in the election. al gore famously was the vice president running to succeed b

passes a law. >> congress does not pass laws. bailout of the igman is traders collude we've voted for congress tells the new makes allies with the very vague aspiration and then it allows those people to be experts seoul congress will setback in cases which is much more helpful to the amended is a lot easier that hard job to make policy choices it is not doing the fundamental constitutional job. >> the increase of that bureaucratic state is an explicit or implicit? >> it comes in waves about 180 years ago. as a political scientist has a theory of giving up a new style. but of biggest thrust came with fdr after the great increases of power but the next is the great society in to bring in the affordable care act. and to be qualitatively the way the europeans have had. >> how has this affected you and i a on individual basis quick. >> of federal bureaucrat especially but anything that anvils health care department of health and human services if you apply for a job there are requirements and employers especially with that compliance

focusing on work to remove the health care law. >> i want to welcome you on the start of the 115 congress. i first would like to start rethinking the american people. we take it to heart and the responsibility. we have a guest with us today, someone who has been here many times before. i want to congratulate the trunk and steam. they have the wisdom to listen in the courage to lead america. when you watch on the floor today, we are going to start with that. we watched what has happened with jobs across this country. the regulation impounded for the last eight years. you will see this week that will bring up the reins back. many of you know about that legislation. it simply says give the people a voice when it comes to regulation in america. it only deals with those bills of regulation that get opposed upon that cost more than $100 million. you think there would've been a few of those, but if you look in just the last six years, there is 82 of those put in place every single year of this administration. we have to get the burden off and start working. no new major rulings will be imposed w

if congress doesn't fix it who will? congress as an entity has control to fix things the house of representatives does, our think tanks and conferences are great to raise awareness, but it comes to fixing themselves they have the tools to make themselves great again to address these problems to find a way to allow this comfortable information to flow to the right people but not to get to the outside. they have the opportunity to actually embrace the challenge they have which is the article one responsibility to hold themselves account able. the best example is within the past couple weeks, the debate about russia's involvement the senate has been briefed, rank and file house of representatives are now back home doing town halls, they don't know what's going on, they're being asked these questions and are getting the news from the media not from the guardians of the information, they're getting it from press reports, reading the "washington post" and that's what they are getting. if we are going to hold the intelligence c

we're going to be working with the congress. over the course of the first several months to construct the kind of tax reform for businesses and individuals that unleash the boundup energy in the american economy. we're going to keep our promises to end illegal immigration. build a wall, have an infrastructure bill and invest in rebuilding our military, as our commander in chief marshal strategy with our military commanders to hunt down and destroy isis. but the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. and that was our message today and it will be our message on capitol hill. and it needs to be done. not just as a promise kept, but because in the course of this election, the american people had had -- a choice, and what appeared to many as gns all odds oftentimes overwhelming opposition. our president-elect took his case to the american people to repeal and replace obamacare and american people voted desice ofly for a better future for health care in this country. and we are determined to give them that. the re

>>> a new year, a congress. the 115th congress set to begin within the next hour. already the president-elect split with his own party on their first new and controversial move of the new session. >> last night they voted to gut the congressional ethics watchdog panel. democrats, some republican leaders on capitol hill have slammed the move. a lot of rank and file republicans applauded it. and now today, just moments ago, the president-elect weighed in. he said to congress essentially, don't you have more important things to do? let's go to cnn's phil mattingly live on capitol hill. very interesting dynamics going on here, phil. >> it took all of, minus three hours before the 115th congress is even sworn in for republicans to apparently break with the president-elect. it's important to look back at how this all came into play. 2008 house democrats decided to create this independent ethics committees. what it was doing is it split from the actual capitol hill ethics committee, congressional ethics committee. the reason was to give it its own independence. an opportu

i want to ask you about new congress, as we move on to the new congress starting tomorrow. republican majorities in both house. everybo tripping over themselves to tell you how fast they can get rid of affordable care act. what on earth could the democrats do about this? >> nothing, absolutely nothing. it's remarkably simple. the republicans can use exactly the same tool called reconciliation to get rid of it, which the democrats used to bring it in. so, this -- consequences -- elections have consequences. when president of the united states is going to be donald trump. republicans will control both houses of congress. they can easily pass a resolution that has reconciliation instructions in it and dismantle obamacare instantaneously. if they do, have you 20 million something people without health insurance. that will be a rude awakening for people. hey, you know, you want to be majority and take aware health care for 22 million people, go for it. i think it would be fantastic. >> hogan, to all those people on obamacare, the people with pre-existing conditions, donald trump

are congress has spoken. when it comes to enhanced interrogation techniques, my understanding is, i have not seen the new executive action but they are going to look at and examine those issues. with respect to torture, that is banned. the army field manual makes that clear. the law is tied to the army field manual. we view that to be a matter of settled law. i am not familiar with what is coming out today but it with regard to how most members of congress perceived or view that, we have spoken on that. >> i think that it would take a change in the law. congress is on record opposing that. [an audible question] -- question] you will have a lot of members of congress who will weigh in on that. they probably already are. we believe it is settled law. the army field manual speaks to this issue. i don't anticipate that will change. if the administration has something they want to propose we will be willing to take a look at what it might be that they are suggesting but in terms withw that issue is dealt in terms

congress. first, we'd like to start with thanking the american people for entrusting us, and we take it to heart and responsibility. we have a special guest with us today. someone who has been here many times before in the service. i want to congratulate the trump-pence team. they have the wisdom to listen and now they have the courage to lead america. when you watch on the floor today, we're going to start with that courage. we watched what has happened to jobs across this country. the regulations that has been impounded for the last eight years. you'll see this week, that we will bring up the reins act. many of you know about that legislation. it simply says give the people a , voice when it comes to regulation in america. the rains act only deals with those bills of regulation that get imposed upon that cost more than $100 million on business. you think that would have been few of those, but if you look in just the last six years, there was 82 of those presented and put in place every single

well, for congress, he said. he also called for expanding, eliminating loopholes in what is the lobby it of a law, the lobbyist disclosure architect, as you know t. third thing was a congressional term limits, it imposed a constitutional amendment to post-term amendments. that's been here for 20 years as a proposal. i worked in the chief of staff for self years for many senators. so i know how difficult these can be, especially the broader issue, trust. do you support these three specific proposals trgs five-year ban on former members of staff lobbying for the government as for congress, second thing is expanding the definition of a lobbyist under the federal law the third is the constitutional amendment on terminal limits and then what else would you do beyond that to restore trust? >> let me first get to the point he made, which is this is on ab secure agency that can make allegations with a person with no do you process and you have no right to confront your accuser. so there are a lot of people in congress wh

sometimes members of congress don't understand it. when you don't have military training, you end up with situations like the korean war. general mattis certainly understands that. i've talked to them about it. but do we risk when they don't have much military experience and a civilian government that other leaders don't understand what task force is? a lot of members of the obama white house don't even know what i'm talking about. it's not an issue we should be concerned about as well? rigorous military training of people who understand this military issues through their own military service, which is increasingly less and less in our civilian government? >> senator sullivan, first of all military readiness and training is a major issue and i do know what the task force method is. but i do not believe you have to have served in the military in order to have knowledge and appreciation. is this different than serving? absolutely. >> i'm talking about rigorous military training. >> understand. as i said before, i think there is a distor

our constituents are looking to this congress to address the economy, jobs, the crumbling infrastructure, and so many other issues. despite these pressing needs the only substantive bill this house is considering this week is a bill restricting a woman's ability to get a full range of and abilityservices of passed before and we know is going nowhere. x title alone must be part of the majority's new plan to fact.ne fax -- we now have in our discourse alternative facts which takes this to a whole new level. the bill is called the payer funding for abortion act. under current law, under the hide amendment which i hate, which i will do everything to repeal, but under the current law we have no taxpayer funding for abortions. taxpayer funds are currently prohibited to be used for abortions. instead what this does is take that concept and uses it to far expand a restriction on a woman's ability to get a full health care that she needs. let me talk about what this bill does exactly. it codifies beehive hide amendment into statutes which has never been done in this nation's history. it codifies

republicans with, new congress now, speakership in the house. they've got the senate, they'll have the white house in a few weeks, whab bha are they going to do? >> ghod day, there's no other single political picy issue that betr unites republicans and the challenge now is if you break it, you own it, and soon, beginning next week we know that that budget resolution as it is effectively, budget reconciliation, think of it as a budget resolution here that would allow the repealing of obamacare to begin. the senate will begin that with a vote as early as next week we are now told, but what's notable in this, donald trump tweeting about it today saying that people must remember that obamacare doesn't work and it is not affordable. he talks about increases in places in arizona, quoting bloint had a criticism during the campaign, but one of the real challenges is, what happens when you do replace this? that's why one of the things being discussed right now is this idea, not of repeal and replacement, but a repeal and delay option. which means the rep

past the house last congress unanimously. that never happens. and so, it is an important piece of legislation. and again, it is just updating a lot of the way the world works today and protects people's privacy. >> congressman darrell issa same question. >> suzan is right to say that is one of the critical ones but i will give you some examples that lead to the question, not just of legislation but interpretation of the law and maybe in some places not legislating. we certainly have the famous situation of that san bernardino murderer whose phone was an iphone. one of his bones. and the government came in so we would like apple to write is a software program so we can remotely unlock it and take information. it created a question that had not been a question before about privacy. you know if you ask someone to break into a state to get documents, that is a reasonable thing to do. if you asked them to design a say so it is not safe then there is a question. that is one question. the other one just came up this past few days ago which was the arka

members of congress and congress and the senate who have to vote on him will have to ask themselves if they are comfortable with someone overseen public health that has make comments about eliminating medicaid come about medicare, about women's health, but a series of issues. those are part of what each senator will have to ask themselves if they're comfortable. >> let me add a sentence on that. the finance committee is essentially the committee that pays for programs like medicaid and medicare. we are not going to let these hearings go forward, when you're talking about health policy that touches decades and decades of efforts to expand protections for vulnerable women, were not just going to have those hearings and pretend those issues are not important. they will be front and center at the confirmation hearing. we have a direct responsibility as a finance committee essentially comes up with the money for programs like medicare and medicaid and attacks aspect and we are going to make sure the country does not, without a conversation just turn its back on decades of progress in terms

that's congress at its best. with the enactment of the whistleblowers protection act of 1989, o.s.c. became an independent agency within the zev tiff branch. its -- executive branch. its mission is to protect federal employees from prohibitive personnel practices and especially reprisal from whiss -- whistleblowing. it provides employees a mechanism to help whistleblowers. o.s.c. enforces employment rights under the uniform services employment and re-employment rights act of 1994 for federal who have served or serve in the uniform services. congress re-authorized the 2003 to 2007. o.s.c. has experienced significant growth in its caseload, since the last re-authorization. the caseload has increased, mr. speaker, by 58%. this bill re-authorizes the agency from 2016 through 2020 and makes several important changes to assist o.s.c. in carrying out its vital mission. the bill codifies o.s.c.'s performance metrics in the annual reports to the congress and requires additional metrics to support congressional oversight o

congress has no formal role. not surprisingly, congress does not tend to get hired or fired towards their behavior to certain regulations. congress is not really paid attention. we have tried to come up with a structural response that would give congress a role in the regulatory process. the idea is that this would have a couple hundred people hired on the basis of their expertise, statisticians and economists. we like folks who have subject area expertise. an expert inis statistics generally may not be able to fully assess climatological science regulation. we want more brains and diverse brains to play a role and advise congress and notify congress that regulations are being made every day. 3000 are proposed every day. the january 13 issue of the federal register had 627 pages in it. not all that was regulations, but a lot of it was proposed relations. capitol hill cannot possibly keep up with that. host: john on our independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for c-span. what current practice,

where congress has had me up before them to discuss policy issues. we spend a lot of time, you know, not in hearings having discussion. there are clearly some differences between the republicans in congress and what we have been doing.but, you know, i have respected my relationship with members of the house and senate on both sides of the aisle. >> do they get the issue that you're talking about and you are dealing with? >> i think they are incredibly inquisitive and trying to be informed. >> how has criticism for lawmakers in the number of three Ãtwo partyline votes by the commission. what do you think has caused telecom issues to become increasingly politicized? >> i wish i the answers that. the first issue is that, you know 85 and 90 percent of our decisions are unanimous. but those don't get the headlines. and even when we have a three à two decision, you know there is actually a three Ãtwo decision where i am voting with the republicans against my fellow democrats. >> that is effective competition. >> effective competition. and, so but Ãthis

it has to come via congress. congress, we know republicans are very loath to spend money. i think it's going to be a lot of conflict there. it's interesting how little he was scrutinised. what's been extraordinary about this election is that any normal election, a presidential candidate would have to answer that question. you are going to cut taxes and spend hugely on armed forces, huge amount on infrastructure, you are going to save working class america, where are the tax cuts coming? they're all for the rich, not for the poor. how does he square any of that? nobody ever got to force him to answer those. i think there are more dissimilarities between trump and reagan. 0ne dissimilarities between trump and reagan. one obvious dissimilarity is that reagan was a charming individual. even his political opponents found him a likeable individual. it seems to me that's not the case with trump. in terms of his relationships with congress that may prove to be another difficulty. could i suggest one thing that — one strong positive you may dislike is that he is a great communica

drama on capitol hill as the us congress reconvenes. a public bust up with donald trump leads to an about turn on it exchanges. playing the trump card. ford and general motors come under the spotlight for car manufacturing in mexico. we have special report inside the istanbul nightclub where 39 people died in the new year's eve attack. and there is double trouble for young twins in america. we will bring you the full story of robert lee heroism. —— brotherly. light from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. its newsday. —— live. it is atm in singapore and midnight in london and seven in washington whether republican—led u.s. in london and seven in washington whether republican—led us congress was expecting to have a ceremony backin was expecting to have a ceremony back in 2017. instead, it was full of action to stop republicans have ditched a plan to strip the office of congressional ethics. it was prodded by a public outcry and a dressing down from donald trump. as the brand—new congress convenes on

very few people have business background before they come to congress. i was one of 25 mbas, one of 17 engineers and one of only two people who had both background. i think that background gave me a perspective that was distinct and important to have in congress fighting to grow our economy and help small businesses. when i went back, i spent a fair amount of time thinking how i could have an impact at home, got involved with a number of organizations, for example the coalition to reduce recidivism. we need criminal justice reform. you've heard people talking about that all over the country. i was able to work on that issue at home. >> you have a net worth of $10 million, maybe more. how did you -- why do you think you were successful? >> well, i've been successful for a number of reasons. i always took care of my clients and customers and made sure i put their interests first. it's not just me. my wife has her own career. she has been very successful as well. i think the key to our mutual success is our mutual support for each other. i couldn't do what

what is the perspective of congress and the money it allocates? >> i think his read was noting there is an understanding that certainly went a step -- when it happens toes both red states and blue states. the proof in the pudding very soon. or not theer principles of the administrator were discussing to ensure that if we are going to have these public expenditures, direct federal spending and democrats will likely see some kind of tax credits scenario. i think one thing that will be worth looking for is these projects that are undertaken have some type of very robust resilience and flood planning and other type of disaster planning. >> what do we know about the direction of fema in the upcoming trump administration? >> very little. we were speaking a few minutes ago. the trumpet ministration has not said anything about who the next director will be. they have offered some party stark takes on climate change. not fall in line with how the climate is changing and how humans are involved in that. it is a pretty clear scott this clear sign on where th

i don't think this is about congress. i think he thinks he can do a lot by executive action and by independent action that he can't do nlsz the congress passes appropriations bills similar to what he pro potions. they're trying to cut out medicaid and limit medicaid and change it to a voucher system, make people work. if you're sick and you can't work, you should still get medicaid. they're going to tli to eliminate the affordable care act. people are going to die because they can't get health care. community health centers will be limited in the funds they get. the people at the bottom will hurt. it will be a great life for them. still, it's a great life now but your focus group as president should not be mar-a-lago or whatever it is. >> mar-a-lago. thank you forring with be me this morning. >> m thank you. m thanks for with me. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," trump's foreign policy in 140 characters, one small sentence, big small sentence, big consequences? con. the microsoft cloud offers infinite scalability. the

-- 115th congress. house documents are made more electronically available and new rules make it easier to reduce spending in some appropriations bills. a continues a prohibition on lobbyists in the private house jim -- it continues a prohibition on lobbyists in the private house gym. that's a wrap up of some of the rules included in the package yesterday. host: joining us now is christina peterson to talk about the 115th congress. could you walk us through what happened considering this office of congressional ethics and white important for people to understand it? guest: this really began monday night when house republicans met at a conference and they approved a last-minute rules change offered by bob goodlatte that would take the office of ethics,ional a independent watchdog group and put it under the

we talked about a few key areas in the last congress. big data in smart cities were areas we focused in on to help folks understand real use cases that were happening. and some early progress that was being made, things like smart cities, where different cities using things, different censors on transportation. we also have incredible opportunity in all areas. this is infrastructure when you talk about sensors figure out how much water a plant needs to farmers don't have use too much water that they don't need. we have to remind people the breadth of opportunities. there are expected to be 20 billion connected devices by the year 2020 of all sorts. to remind folks of issues of inneroperability, consumer protections, privacy, security, important issues as well we want to make sure people are i wear of and are thoughtful looking at policies. >> do you feel you're still in kind of the education phase rather than starting to really think about what kind of legislation might be useful? >> guest: i think we're continuing in the education phase

if the congress, within 21 days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if congress is not in session, within 21 days after congress is required to assemble, determines by 2/3 vote of both houses that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall discontinue the same as acting president, otherwise, the president shall resume the powers and duties of his ffice. mr. goodlatte: the gentleman from california, mr. mcnerney. mr. mcnerney: amendment 26, section 1, the ight of citizens of the united states, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of age. section 2, the congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. mr. goodlatte: the gentleman from georgia, mr. woodall. amendment 27, no law, varying the compensation for the services of the senators and representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virgini

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