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Pedestrians. being one of the architects of the bill. nita loy chairwoman of the house appropriations committee. includes 1.9% pay raise to federal civilian workers which overrides the presidents decision to deny them. and it increases the census funding $1 billion to combat the administrations assault on the census, she says. and 9.3 billion for e.p.a. and land and water conservation funding which was not in the decembers continuing resolution. appear confident that this is going to pass democr...

Actual funding, not just a short-term continuing resolution. thats something we should have done months ago and well see if we can get the text out, get it done and accomplish it now. >> so yessish assuming what you know about the deal. >> yes. >> and the president yessish assuming he should sign if the text is what you believe it is? >> yes. i anticipate agreeing to it but ive got to get through the details to make surety pairp paperwork lines up with the rhetoric. >> youre welcome to use that ...

When the debate is about the wall and the law only, democrats would make. when the debate is about border security, the president wins. i am mystified by this detention bad thing that i know they do not like the i.c.e. policies, but i dont even though by minimizing the number of beds would change those policies. i think either this is a momentary snag before everything comes together before the last minute, like it does in congress, or we are heading for in other cr. i think your idea is really ...

All along and theyre the ones raising the president on what is needed and you need a wall and technology. you need a strong interior enforcement component. if you only have a wall and there is no one in the interior of the united states and theyre looking for people, not just those involved in criminal activity and people who cross the border illegally and know if they can get by the border patrol and make a false claim for asylum and they come over for a visa, there will be no one to remove it ...

This weekend and can attest that what we need is not a wall but 21st century technology, port infrastructure, additional trained personnel and humanitarian assistance. house democrats will continue to oppose funding for a costly and unnecessary wall that does not make us safer or address the humanitarian challenges on our border. we should note, though, jon, that we are told that democrats are open to the idea of funding barriers in certain locations along the border. that number of funding -- o...

Its to the point where some centrists, senator rob portman among them, have suggested that they may try to outlaw shutdowns altogether. youve covered all of these issues for a really long time. do you think that thats a plausible scenario? on the one hand it makes sense to me. on the other hand, to a certain extent congress would be limiting their own power if they did that. >> they would be limiting their own power to use suicide as a weapon. that is, its doable. they can simply say in the even...

Fencing. watch this. >> is going to be pretty hard, quite frankly. because the democrats -- my colleagues on the other side of the aisle -- they are really locked in. they dont want to put up any physical barrier. >> is the president to cause the set shutdown by disbanding $5.7 billion for a while. im not going to say i refuse to spend a dollar and border security that includes any fencing like a 700 miles of financing we already have >> harris: chief what has chris pratt a john roberts is more ...

Declare in a national emergency. what have we been doing the last five weeks? it seems full-size hurt the american people hurt by not having border while funding and not being paid. >> that is a fair assessmenthi but what we are looking at is a three-week continuing resolution and in that time the president gives congress another opportunity to get to the deal before he potentially declares a national emergency. a lot of news media came out ahead of time that is what he would declare but he is t...

Emergency if he doesnt get the border wall funding he wants. what have we been doing for the last five weeks? it seems like both sides hurt the american people. they got hurt by not having border wall funding, then they got hurt by not getting paid. >> i think thats a fair assessment. but what we are looking at is a 3-week continuing resolution. the president is giving the congress another opportunity to get to a deal before he potentially declares a national emergency. a lot of news media came ...

Emergency if he doesnt get the border wall funding he wants. what have we been doing for the last five weeks? it seems like both sides hurt the american people. they got hurt by not having border wall funding, then they got hurt by not getting paid. >> i think thats a fair assessment. but what we are looking at is a 3-week continuing resolution. the president is giving the congress another opportunity to get to a deal before he potentially declares a national emergency. a lot of news media came ...