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Sides fred lawmakers sometimes build bipartisan bonds during a long flight or a trip to the hotel bar. >> you are finding out about their children, youre finding about their college experience, you know, that creates relationships inside the congress that go way beyond jus the issue at hand. >> i have seen legislative that were cut because of one congressional trip spread. >> in other words, the most valuable commodity for a congressional trip may be forging which breaks down partisan divides. r...

The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Monday summed up Chinas achievements in building the legal system over the past decade, stressing that the country has seen a significant increase in the number of laws and amendments, and that while the legal system is becoming more complete, whole-process peoples democracy has also been brought to the fore in the form of public participation in legislation.

Going to be accountability, serious accountability around what happened on january 6th? the special committee is part of that process, but again, its remote is investigative, and oversight oriented. its not about punishing people for what they did. that really falls squarely into the domain of the doj, and i think everyone is waiting to see what will happen there. >> jacqui, one last question for you. congresswoman jamie raskin says the committees work will quote, blow the roof off the house, on...

An Opportunity to Address Needs In previous Capitol reports, I’ve mentioned the “markup” process, when the Senate Appropriations Committee proposes changes to

Washington State Farm Bureaus Director of Government Relations, Tom Davis says too many lawmakers in Olympia have a credibility problem when it comes to understanding agriculture.

Washington State Farm Bureaus Director of Government Relations, Tom Davis says too many lawmakers in Olympia have a credibility problem when it comes to understanding agriculture.

Minister and contempt. the broader problem is notjust the conservative party has a very large majority which makes it unlikely to pass, we are at the point where all political observers would acknowledge, it is not necessarily a party political points, that the existing mechanisms for holding the government to account and the strength of our legislative, house of commons, have been very weakened in recent years. if you want to go to contempt, not many people have pointed out, in early december o...

Washington State Farm Bureaus Director of Government Relations, Tom Davis says too many lawmakers in Olympia have a credibility problem when it comes to understanding agriculture.

With harvest season fast approaching, U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse worries if the removal of the ag overtime exemption will make labor availability worse.

More about your convention in a minute, but first, i want to get to the topic i raised with christina greer, about the threat from republicans, and mitt romney eluded to this and warned about this from his own party. it seems like in terms of supreme court nominations going forward, if republicans were to control the senate, they might not even give a hearing to the nominee of a democratic president. ketanji brown jackson will go from judge to justice later this week, but how worried are you abo...