our own laws passed by congress. that is the kind of thing that should not take effect as an international agreement without ratification by the senate, two thirds of the senate. i asked that very question. his response was stunning. he said, well, this involves more parties than just the united states and iran. it involves other countries. in addition to that, it involves other entities that are not sovereign nations but our organizations. it just so happened i had the department -- the state department's definition of a treaty. from their own website. i read it to him. it clearly encompassed everything he just described. there was nothing about the fact that involved multiple countries or nonsovereign organizations. they were parties that took it out of the definition of a tree. -- treaty. he backed off that and later said i think we were afraid congress would not ratify it. that is the whole point. if you are afraid they would not ratify, you cannot just for that reason assume it has been ratified and treat it as

she chairs the veteran affairs committee in the eighties congress and the 83rd congress. when the control flip-flopped back and forth between republicans and democrats. her experience and we see a couple of pictures here, in this one she is having a radio debate with mary norton of new jersey. this is in 1926, and these to really become in many respects, the dean's of women in congress for several decades. mary norton is a democrat, she came up through politics in jersey city new jersey, her mentor was frank, i am the law, hague. he promoted her career, and she comes into the house in 1925, the same year as edith norris rogers. the interesting thing about her is that she like rodgers, and other women from this generation, she really pursued a strategy of gaining power in the house by assimilating. they did not push women's issues per se, and they try to minimize gender differences, and norton was extremely successful moving up the committee leadership ladder. she cheered for congressional committees by the time she retired in the 19 fifties. one of them was the labor comm

the vetoed bill and message are sent back to congress and this ends the matter unless congress can pass the bill over the veto by a 2 thirds vote of both houses. and then it becomes a law without the president's signature. the president can also appear in person before a joint session of congress to explain a veto or to propose new legislation, congress is then free to accept or reject the president's suggestions. and then it starts all over again. the great lawmaking assembly line goes on, creating laws and diversified as the nation size. labor, nationally defense, government departments, regulation of transportation, foreign trade, taxes, bills, bills, bills. and every act informed to the written constitution of the united states which fixes the rules, rules made by the people themselves. acting to represent of the people, rules for the people, rules which govern the great enterprise of

congress. his books include one nation after trump, a guide for the complex disillusion the, desperate and the not yet departed. i love his book titles because the next one, we did in the constitution center and it depressed as even before we began the program. it's even worse than it looks how the constitutional politics and very relevant for tonight. the broken branch, how congress is filling america and how to get it back. contract he's a friend of the center and appears it's wonderful to have dropped the violence that consume the nation in general and in congress leading up to the civil war between 1813 1860, there were more than 70 violent incidents between congressman and the house and senate chambers, or on nearby streets and dueling grounds, and you know that it wasn't confined to congress between july and october 1835 alone, there were 109 riots nationwide. so much more -- let me ask it this way, is it true that there was more violence then and congress in particular but also in the na

i don't think congress will allow that to occur. we were closer to it in 1983 the last time we made a major overhaul of the system. this would set up a commission, we would have to have a super majority, congress would have to vote on that. that's what we did last time, we fixed it or about 50 to 70 years. we should do the same thing. this is a popular program and we should not be at risk area we could have a debate about how much more robust to make it. it's not like there's money sitting there. money is going out faster than it's coming in and has been since 2011. we have 10,000 people a day turning 65 becoming eligible for medicare and pretty quickly after that social ready if they are not already on it. that generation is going to live longer than any previous generation, it's bigger than any previous generation. we have real strains on the system that need to be addressed and it needs to be done in a bipartisan way. host: our main topic is the war powers and the house effort to revive that 1973 act. we go to ethel in daisy, ten

you both spend a decade in congress. brian left congress just as tom entered congress. i guess you guys had a brief overlap. and brian, you know, you challenged an incumbent who came in on the '94 gop wave in your first run. and then you won in a swing district. and you stayed there until 2010 at the beginning of tea party movement at which time you stepped down. and tom you came into the congress just at the beginning of the tea party movement. and, you know, you have left -- you retired from congress in october. and your seat is now held by marjorie taylor green. and it is a sort of interesting, you know, thinking about the bookends to both of your times in congress. how did you see the institution change in that decade? how did you understand your job or your role change? and did that change have anything to do with your decisions to step aside? so brian i'll start with you. >> all right. well, you know, it's -- you could -- you could see the -- the portents of what we have now back in the tea party movement. back then if you recall we were dealing with the affordabl

we have 20, 30 members of congress from a shoulder to shoulder, standing room only for staff -- congress, shoulder to shoulder, standing remotely for staff. we bring in experts from around the country. that is probably the primary purpose of the ai caucus, to help inform embers of congress and their staff about artificial intelligence, what are his promises, its risks, and how to be moved forward in ways that guarantee that the united states is not only a leader in artificial intelligence, but that we move forward in a way that protects people from dislocations, protects them from bias applications of artificial intelligence, and provides the benefits that artificial intelligence can provide. last year, we passed the ai government act into law, and what that does is let the government beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities. that is what we use in helping make efficiencies in the way the government provides its services. on the other hand, we want to make sure it does not create biases that hurt significant sectors of the population. cat: who are some of the experts you have bee

this goes back to congress is a continental congress. benjamin franklin advocated for putting a chaplin and opening the continental congress in prayer. there was prayer in congress before the bill of rights that enshrined freedom of religion. wait a minute though. did anybody see a first amendment tensioner? >> a lot of people do. i will tell you, that moves over the whole project. why do you praying the government? there is no prayer that opens the white house for there's no chapel in the white house. god is invoked sometimes in the supreme court but there's a god and the supreme court. prayer is very much part of at the legislative branch does. mr. freeport has ruled several times in support of opening legislative sessions in prayer. local boards there been many lawsuits from atheists and others challenging this. it's always been upheld we can open a legislative session in prayer the practice goes beyond that to. the state assemblies have chaplains, the political conventions open with prayers every night. also a tradition >> who gave t

the congress has two choices. it can continue to exercise or democratic autocratic and control over the american citizens who reside in our nations capitol and treating them in the words of frederick douglass as aliens, not citizens. or it can live up to this nations promise, an ideal, and taxation without representation and hr 51. bassett, thank you for your leadership out of chair for dc equality. i not healed back. it. >> nineteen. [inaudible]. >> thank you. this is not the answer of the voting rights in dc. if dc were become estate on the founding fathers recognized they would be a first among states and that is because the district without federal conduit resides would be reliant upon the south and surrounding states in which case dc for basic and things like security, sewage, water and a host of other needs. it would require foreign governments to negotiate with that state for embassies and other international matters. and quite friendly, founding fathers wanted none of this printed they wanted congress to h

i agree that i do not seen it happen in this congress but i think section 230 in its current form is numbered but it may be, you know, another year or two before we see anything actually happened. >> host: go-ahead gopal ratnam. >> guest: i would add a quick point to that. like ashley mentioned there's a lot of misunderstanding around what section 230 actually does. like anyone who is understood the topic lawmakers understood the topic they know that if you make platform companies, tech companies, social media companies completely responsible for the content online and it's very likely that there will be of a mass silencing of unacceptable quote unquote unacceptable conversation and topics but these quotes companies being unacceptable so there's less likely to be silence then we see now. i think that is the perverse effect that people are grappling with. >> ashley gold, how did the lobbying operations of some of these social media companies like facebook and google have increased over the years and what kind of operations do they have here in washington. >> in general they have prett

running through congress on a roll. their regulatory implementation of obamacare required well over 20,000 pages. that iso a bad way to implement public policy, particularly considering it directed one fifth of the u.s. economy. on top of the law are tens of thousands of federal rules and regulations administered by a score of agencies andrd boards. this is not how our founding fathers envisioned congress protecting the american people and it is a bad way to do business. as a matter of fairness, earmark project funding should be merit-based. and competitive. competitive by formula. earmarks undermine state decision-making or funds that are allocated to formula -based grants. clinical decisions should not preempt state regional decision-making. earmarks should not be a shortcut fornd state and local government engaging in a long-termg plan and budgeting fr anticipated needs. furthermore, state and local governments and other organizations should not be spending time and money to hire lobbyists to chase after federal doll

when congress does not do its job, when congress does not debate these issues and hold the president's feet to the fire, that is cowardice. what we are saying is look, we have responsibilities here. if you go to work, that is a big deal. we are putting the lives of our constituents in harm's way. we ought to debate these issues and go on record as voting one way or the other. host: ahead of the hearing, yesterday's hearing, bipartisan coalition of lawmakers introduced legislation to restore congressional war powers. in that, it says hr 7500 would "reassert congress' constitutional role." how did this come out between you and share mcgovern in terms of developing legislation and how does this legislation see congress reasserting their role? guest: i want to give the chairman a lot of credit. he has been consistent on this issue. we have been on the rules committee a few years together, and frankly, he was consistent -- didn't matter if it was obama, bush or trump, he has consistently been there. he has unique credibility on this issue. part of the problem is the two sides of a polarized

not only the first woman in congress, but the only woman in congress. while some reporters scoffed at her ability to fit in, others did hover credit for braving the circumstances. one kentucky reporter noted, was there any man willing to become one of a deliberative body made up of 434 women and himself? no, he concluded. a man in that position would have his courage boos from the palms of his hands. to give you an idea of what it was like for her as the only female, jumping ahead to when she sat for this portrait of the 65th congress, so here she is surrounded on all sides by men, but look at it and she expand the picture, how many of men were on the other side of her? 434 men, one woman. not only was rankin the only woman member of congress, but at that time, there were few women working in the capital. before she was sworn in, rankin hired two women staffers who she had known and who also lived with her for a time. these women became trusted aides, they would serve every function, they were secretaries, researchers, correspondents, policy advisers. i

the barrier is not in the constitution, it was put in by the congress, congress can take it out. we had the violence against women act, this reauthorization anyway that is stronger, listening to some of our friends in indian country have suffered so much from the injustice -- and no recourse, that was the other day, yesterday, we had two bills that i'm so excited about, the dreamers act. you may recall that an hour less congress, i spoke for eight hours and six minutes in support of the dream act. i will not do that now. i did not do that yesterday but i did use my time to take pride in the driver -- in the dreamers and what they mean to our country. the promise part of that under leadership -- we are very excited about that legislation. right now, we are taking up the medicare bill that was necessary because of the rescue package, similarly as was this is very as the republican tax scam. we will see if they vote for it to protect medicare even though we disagree. when we come back, we are having committee meetings next week to prepare for our agenda when we come back, we will be

more women are being collected to congress. and in 1977, both republican and democratic women come together, and they found the congressional woman's caucus. which has a, very successful legislative agenda. pushing women specific issues in the 1980s and 1990s. in the 19 eighties, you begin to see the development of a political action committee. and that funds women candidates. that has been one of the things that help women's women candidates back quite a bit was money for campaigns. but then in the 1990s, we see greater numbers of women, elected like in the 1990 1992 campaign, which was the year of the women in the so-called year of the woman. it sends almost two dozen new women into the house. >> this is only a beginning, these women know, how many talented and experienced, and able and prepared women there are in their states and other states. it is our job, together, to make sure that they think about running and that we get them to accept the challenge of running, and that we would support them through that race, to victor

she sent this petition to congress. she was a teacher. she argues that as a wage earning woman she has to pay equal taxes with men. as a non voter of course has no voice, excuse, me in how those tax dollars are spent, she further states that with acknowledge superior opportunities, she has been obliged to teach for one third of the wages afforded to a male teacher at the same school. i just have to point out that this petition was sent to congress in 1979. so 140 years ago this year, we were already arguing that women needed to vote for equal eight -- wages. of course as a wage earning woman, women like emily barber from their working experience, it was a very clear how vulnerable women were without the vote. one of the other ways that women came to fight for their right to vote was through engagement on other reform issues. lots of women were engaged in the anti slavery movement, the temperance movement, as well as the consumption of alcohol and other educational, public health, and social reforms. one of the most important endorsements

and congress can change it and congress should change it. i'm the product of the work of a woman, my mother. and her mother produced her. we should not forget women and their commitment and invaluable contributions at our birth. every woman should have the same rights as a man. they don't get paid the same. they are discriminated in the workplace. they are harassed. they are abused. they should have equal rights. that has not occurred in america and won't happen until we pass this bill. i favor the passage and appreciate the spirit which it's offered. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from minnesota. mrs. fischbach: madam speaker, i yield four minutes to the gentlewoman from arizona. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from arizona. mrs. lesko: thank you, mrs. fischbach. madam speaker, i rise in opposition to this bill. this push to remove the deadline for ratification of the equal rights amendment is an unnecessar

they are paid to be memories of congress. if you are really a top member, especially if you are the chair of the top congressional committee or ranking member. those are positions that can get you the big bucks. or if you are in leadership, democrat or republican. we have seen high-profile examples of members of congress going on to become lobbyists. billy townsend, who passed the law that makes it so that medicare can't negotiate drug prices, went on to become president of the pharmaceutical trade group. just shortly after they passed that bill and he made millions of dollars. there are high-profile examples of members of congress getting paid very well to become lobbyists. host: an example of how you can use the open secrets website, opensecrets.org, you can type amazon into that website and look at their contributions and lobbying efforts over the past year. when it comes to lobbying in 2020, amazon spending some 18 million dollars on lobbying, ranking ninth in 2020. that is up from $60 million in lobbying from 2019. what

at that level of congress but your local member of congress should also have a caseworker as do your senators. your senators from oklahoma also have caseworkers as well. we've found that people often don't know that they can turn to the members of congress to also troubleshoot a benefit issue. this is their job to advocate for you. >> if you would be willing to do that, stay on the line for just a second pretty congressman, she brings up and could you explain what that vso does not connection. takano: so it stands for veteran service organization. and some of the vso's that are the more widely known are vso's coordinations like the american legion. the veterans of wars. in vietnam veterans of america. disabled american veterans or vap, a paralyzed veterans of america. and they focus on those veterans often with spinal cord injuries and paraplegics. in disabled american veterans organization veterans that have recognized service connected disabilities. tithese vso's, chartered by congress any more but i think there are atea least three chartered by congress. and they often have in the

house in a new congress. mr. stewart examines how the process has changed since 1789 and the influence of partisanship on those changes. the national archives center for legislative archives hosted this event and provided the video. >> well, it seems that the rain did not dampen any determination for you to attend today's researcher talk. so thank you for braving the elements. richard mccully, the historian at the legislative archives center. the sponsor of the series. today's program is the third researcher top this year. next month, we pick up the pace a bit on may 19th, georgia again, a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff of the joint committee on taxation will speak about his research and his committee records and the history of the joint committee. and on may 26th, we host magdalena -- professor of political science at wooden gate university, who will discuss her research, or her book manuscript about the politics of national identification docu

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congress should have voted on that. but when the president can't respond to the attack but this difference is pretty minor. the broadview is similar. i think the administration that wants to work as a chance of getting something done. then we will see whether or not congress has the will to forcefully have done. >> so it is open to talking about the war powers act? what is part of your effort with the house members to be chair and ranking member of the rules committee? in the house itself with the authority over this? and in response to the executive orders we have seen. also the trump andnd obama presidency as well. >> speaking for myself w io. do. we don't see every issue the same way as a liberal democrat and i am a conservative republican. but i think we see the constitutional role of the institution that we will serve in the same way. it is refreshing to have and administration. that wasn't sure previous administration republican or democrat. there was some concern in the area we might go toit far with a presidenti

since both houses of congress must approve. the house committee believes a compromise might break the deadlock. finally, an agreement is reached and the chairman is instructed to submit a compromise it a joint committee representing both the house and the senate to be called in the senate office building. on his way over with the compromise, chairman cooley stops in at the office of the speaker of the house to get his blessing. congressman whittington of mississippi happens to be with mr. rayburn. the speaker of the house is always a powerful legislative leader and his support is always important. speaker rayburn says a compromise is a good idea. a warning bell calls the speaker to the house. chairman cooley takes a little electric railway train to the senate office building. during any day, senators and congressmen often have to move about a great deal, from one meeting to another. and this unusual little railway saves a great deal of time and effort. the pageboys seem to like it, too. chairman cooley arrives at the joint sess

but those that live that congress summer millionaires. but a lot of them are working to get on - - get relief to those who need it the most. >> silver spring maryland go ahead. >>caller: thank you for taking my call. if the voting rights act in taiwan and the fact but in the 50/50 senate we are done for if they don't want to get rid of the filibuster. because that with the 51 votes like kamala harris because of all of the redistricting it is feeding the republican side becauseau based over the last decade and a half. >> before we get a response let me show you a short clip last month so the potential outcomes in 2022 and redistricting could affect midterm e elections and even college outcomes. here is what he had to say. >> running the 2020 presidential election and those projections keep in mind electoral votes are tagged to the house seats then joe biden would have won the presidentialen election with four fewer votes than he did caa , a state that's gaining a seat. keeping in mind how narrow the house majority is now. that means republ

mcnerney: we need to focus on what we can do in congress. i do believe the fcc will move forward and that is good. i think congress can work in parallel to that and we should work in parallel to that. but we need to create something in lot that is durable. that is what our function should be and that is what we will try and that is what we will try to , accomplish. peter: jerry mcnerney, democrat of california, has been our guest on "the communicators." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's cable television companies in 1979. today, we are brought to by these television companies, who provide c-span2 viewers as a public service. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, every day. we are taking your calls live on the air, the news of the day, and discussing policy issues that impact you. coming u

it is the least effective congress in the history of congress. the only one worse was the congress before it. reporter: covid 19 relief bill is positive in polls. what is in your estimation three-quarters of the country missing? mr. mccarthy: i think when they sign up, 9% goes to covid. but in san francisco that has $650 million deficit, 92% of their deficit will be taken care of and won't have to wait until 2023 like the schools have, they will get their money now. if you are part of the swamp, it's pretty positive. if you are a federal employee, you get $21,000. and if you are in the -- if you come in here illegally, you will have assistance. so i think as people read this, they will find out no. if there is a correlation to january 28, tw 2009, there was same people in the white house that thought a stimulus bill was going to turn the country around. month later it jumped 12 points and more people thought -- why because they wrote the bill the exact same way and rewarded their political friends instead of solving the problem. how do you call i

as they are confirmed by the congress. i've already had a discussion with the secretary, online, security as people were getting confirmed i will have conversations with them. those letters were made publicly available, and the congress gets copies of the letters as well, now this past year congress also passed legislation that requires every agency as they put forward their budget submissions. every year it would include all gao recommendations. but they're planning to do to implement them so that is transparent to the cause. that has only occurred, last year was the first year that that started. so this bucket submission this year would be the second year. we are hopeful, and congress intended that would give more attention to implementing a recommendations faster. now with regard to the capital police portable ask our chief operating officer to respond to our work and recommendations. amara cues from the current work that we are doing right now. one of my sons and law is a capitol hill policemen. so kate cigarettes has

ron: we have learned congress can do big things to help this country. that is what the american rescue plan is, a massive rescue plan to beat the fires and get our economy. we spent a year fighting this virus from behind with half measures, without a national strategy, without the resources to implement a national strategy, so we are where we are. president biden, even before he became president, put this plan in front of the country and said this is what i need to crush the virus, to get the economy moving. we are thrilled congress and less than 50 days has taken this large package and passed it too much intact the way the president asked for it. -- basket pretty much intact, the way the president asked for. it helps the fight against covid, help the middle class, will get schools open, helps poverty, helps the middle-class, helps childcare health premiums -- helps health premiums, all the things we need to do to turn the country around. anna: what is your plan to get a minimum wage hike approved? you think the president would be open to less than $50

in this time period it's congress. that's the center of the news and congress that has all the column inches in newspapers. so people are remarkably. attuned to what's going on in congress. i found there was a humor magazine called vanity fair which came out i think in 1858 when that the first issue was right around that huge fight and one of the things that each issue did in that periodical was it would collect together like in the last week a string of ridiculous things that congressman had said one and then another and another and put it into a conversation. the only way you would understand the humor in that would be if you knew the debates. so to me that was remarkable, i could read it and i could say oh, that's so and so who stood up on this day and said that's and such so that's that's i think weaving those things together is part of this process. my work hasn't focused on that so much, but i think absolutely agree that you can't look at one without the other. i mean you're making me think about what's going to

you had a government shutdown, a very tough congress. the first hundred days, congress pushed a lot of legislation out the door. you had some vision of where the commerce want to go and leadership and where one it taken. after you move that aside you see where the effort was an you go on with support for this. very memorable, very enjoyable, in retrospect, i must admit. every day it would go in fits, it's going to move, it's going to die. a couple of different times, there was a comment from a congressman from ohio set it was deader than elvis. a couple of weeks later, elvis had rejoined life. it wasn't soon after that we got it out of the conference that concluded. so it was one of those things where at any point in time, the plug could have been pulled. it had been pulled many times before in 20 some years of effort. it kept plugging along and plugging along and you finally get to the endpoint with a very successful outcome. there's a lot of good things to embrace, and then some things that occur as part of legislating and what happens

the seventh congress meets. thatcher is gone, wadsworth finds other housing and he has a new roommate. cutler is a minister from hamilton, massachusetts. that's in northern massachusetts. he's kind of an every man. he's a lawyer, a merchant. he's a subject of many david mccullough's latest book. so from now on, most of the letters, most of the voices, the primary voices you're going to be hearing are nathan reed and cutler. they left letters and writings mostly up in salem, massachusetts. and they're also -- besides being colleagues in terms of the documentary record they left behind, they're colleagues spatially. they inhabit the same boarding house room here -- i don't know if you can see my curser. but it's right here and it's where the library of congress jefferson building sits now. those of you who study washington, d.c., you know this is was a boarding house. it was run by king. this is the way that cutler describes it to his daughter. this is the first session of the seventh congress. this is the first e

congress and members of this mob? >> nothing specific, but of course, when the fbi director christopher wray appeared before our judiciary committee a couple of days ago, he was asked about some of the techniques and mechanisms that may be used, geolocating, phone data and such and he spoke to that issue and said of course, the fbi has used those means before. they are legal and if the law is followed and he said it would be. >> because there had been some concern, as you know, that maybe some of these -- these members of the mob had got endures of the u.s. capitol in the days leading up to the january 6th insurrection. have you heard that? >> yes, i have, and it's speculation as to whether or not that has connection to the actual insurrection effort that was made on this capitol building, but i want it make it clear. the fact that you're a member of congress should not absolve you from the responsibility and criminal responsibility when it comes to violence and vand ammism. >> i assume that goes to the staff members

doyle: i think congress is ready to regulate. i think both sides are interested in seeing what opposable's can build consensus. i think it can take a variety of looks. some of it may involve reforms to section 230. some people want to abolish section 230. another idea being promoted is the ftc and the fcc don't have the expertise, the manpower or their rules to police these internet platforms. when facebook. fined $5 billion, their stock lineup. these finds don't mean anything to these companies. we feel we need a new federal agency that exclusively regulates these internet platforms that is staffed with exports -- with experts that understands how the algorithms work and agency -- an agency that would have teeth in it to regulate these internet platforms. that is one idea gaining some momentum. others seem to be around various changes to section 230. there are members on both sides of the aisle that are ready to sit down and talk about what can be put forward in the same is happening in the senate. emily: did anyone of these com

guest: there are some members of congress who have lived in poverty. kyrsten sinema, who got a lot of flak late last week for voting against an amendment offered by senator sanders up after raise the minimum wage to $15. she brought her thumbs down and to vote against that provision. she actually has a very compelling life story. part of it was for a time she and her family lived in the banded gas station. she said there were times that they didn't have running water. so she has that experience. most memos of congress to live -- some of them are very wealthy , some of them are millionaires. a lot of them are working to get this relief to people who need the most. host: silver spring, maryland. good morning prayed caller: thanks for taking my call. if the voting rights act hr one, if that doesn't get elected, they are to find themselves in the minority and they are not in a like that. the truth is with a 50-50 senate we are done for if they don't want to get rid of the filibuster. because without passing that with 51 votes -- without passing that with 6

some of the women of the hague congress were great suffrage leaders. others were labor leaders, teachers, housewives. in those three days, despite the confusion of translations, they worked side by side, disagreed and compromised. by the end of the congress, they formulated a plan for neutral mediation of the war and laid down a detailed and specific program to maintain a permanent peace after the war. the congress voted that the resolution should be carried by envoys to the various governments of europe and to the president of the united states. their plan, though well received, was not acted upon by any government until 1918. when many of their ideas were incorporated by woodrow wilson into the 14 points for the armistice. the women of the hague congress formed the international committee of women for permanent peace, which in 1919 officially became known as the women's international league for peace and freedom. still shocked by the massive destruction of world war i, people began to organize and mobilize, looking for ways to keep the peace and to i

to run for congress but was a business guy at the time. speaker bain or surprisingly resigned and someone stopped in my office and suggested that the army business ranger and we laughed and i told my wife about it and she said what did you tell them and i said i laugh because it was crazy and i said no, it's not paid you be great to that. we talked over how great it would be and she said this would be for our country. ultimately i decided to do it but since then when the questions was what will you run for next because so many people go into politics to to go onto the next thing and so it's flattering and humbling to have my income and i'm energized and what were working on to take majority back in the house but when senate brown won the senate race in 2018 i said if i'm still doing this i will take a look because i don't think he's i ben a good senator in terms of representing the views of ohio voters but i was not excited expecting senator portman to resign. i have taken a look at the governor's race and flattered by people that have sug

are those members of congress? well, certainly the reporting today shows that there's at least a conversation. so i am well beyond the jaw-dropping phase about january 6th between what the military testified to yesterday to, you know, trump's involvement. you know, as i always say about donald trump, it only gets worse. it only gets worse. >> and you've been right. so, evan -- >> it's easy. >> yeah. evan, you said, listen, there's no indication that there's any members of congress are actively being investigated right now. but when you report investigators are looking at whether lawmakers may have helped rioters unknowingly, what form would that take? how would they unknowingly help? >> well, you know, there have been accusations by some democratic members that they know that members -- republican members gave tours, for instance, in the days before, in the weeks before the insurrection. and as juliette just pointed out, you know, we've seen some of those videos. you can see in some of the videos we've already aire

requests from the congress. priority one are mandates. these are statutory requirements for our work or conference or committee reports that outline requirements for gao requests for us to do our work. second, our priority is requests from chairs and ranking members of the committees. we treat both parties the same as our nonpartisan status so they have equal access to our work. priority three are recommendations from individual members of congress for our work. we have not been able to fulfill requests from individual members for probably 15 years now because of a lack of a resources. so right now, in order to get access to our resources, you have to get a committee to sponsor a request, or get it into a statutory requirement in law or in a conference or committee report. now, we're able to get to all of the requests that we accept. we may not be able to get to them as fast as the committees would like. so what i've been doing for many years now is meeting with the committee chairs and ranking members as many a

>> guest: i think we should focus on what we can do at congress. i do believe the fcc will move forward and that is good and they can work in parallel to that and we think should work in parallel to that. we need to create something in law that is durable and that is what our question should be and that's what i think we will try to do. >> host: jerry mcnerney, democrat from the california has been our guest on "the communicators" along with cat of "the washington post". >> you are watching c-span2, your unfiltered view of government. c-span2 was created by america's cable television company and today we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span2 to viewers as a public service. >> c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day and discussed policy issues that affect you. coming up tuesday morning, senior researcher talks with anthony blinken in the future of chinese relations under the biden administration paid they discussed the role of supporting [inaudible] want c-span's

look at this congress. there are over 140 democratic and republican women in the house and senate, the most ever in the history of our country. that translates to work we are doing in this chamber to better the lives of women and girls. today, we voted to pass the equal rights amendment and the violence against women reauthorization act. these are steps in the right direction. we have come a long way, baby, toward full equality. but we still have work to do. we unfortunately have a system in america that often suppresses women and does not support women. but we know that a woman is like a teabag, like eleanor roosevelt said, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. and i know for a fact women have continued to stand up against every barrier. point to this pandemic and you see how women, especially women of color, have borne the brunt of this health and economic crisis. but we keep moving it we will continue in this congress to fight for the women in america. this is our responsibility.

it's working with one side of congress. and both of you have backgrounds where you have worked on a bipartisan basis. ms. young, in particular, on the appropriations committee. that's how you appropriate. i've spoken with some of the cardinals who were previously in charge who are republicans who worked with you and some who as ranking members worked with you and they said you did work with them. and that's very important. on covid, you know, five times, five times we've done that in the last year. unfortunately, this latest time, the administration chose to go a different route. i think it's a mistake for the country. i certainly think it's a mistake for trying to build some bipartisanship going forward on other issues that o.m.b. will be very involved with, like infrastructure. so i hope you are going to be a voice within the administration to say that you're willing and able to work with both sides and find that middle ground and get things done. on the crises that we face, covid-19 is at the top of the list, but it has

in 2010 i found myself running for congress. i would loo into science class rooms and see lines and lines and line of boys clamoring for the jobs. i know those jobs paid pretty well. almost $120,000. to me it didn't make sense. where are the girls? where are girls like me who could get a shot at one of these jobs and that's when i decided i wanted to build a program to teach girls to code. announcer: tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the communicators on c-span 2. ♪ host: george weigle, in the introduction to your new book, "not forgotten," you paid attention to a particular quote. how did that particular quote inspire you? mr. weigle: i have been fortunate to know consequential people, people who left a deep impress upon history, but there are also in this edition to 10 portraits some ordinary people my parents for example, and i think what misses loman said in death of a salesman, attention must be paid, is not only a deep humanistic truth, it is a deep biblical truth. every human person is an idea of god in the biblical view

i did not see it happening in this congress. however, i think section 230 in its current form, its days are numbered, but it may be another year or two before we see anything actually happen. >> host: how they -- go ahead, gopal. try to i i would add a quick t to that. there's a lot of misunderstanding of what section 230 actually does. like anyone who is understood the topic on the hill, lawmakers really understand the topic, they know for example, if you make platform companies, , tech companies can social media companies completely responsible for the content online, it's very likely that there will be a mass sort of silencing of unacceptable quote-unquote unacceptable conversation of topics but these companies deem unacceptable. there's likely to be a lot more silencing than we see now. i think that's like the perverse effect that people are still grappling with. >> host: ashley gold, how big are the lobbying operation for some of these social media companies like facebook and google? have increased over the years? what kind