And decided all with the support of americas cable companies. Cspan, 45 years and counting, powered by cable. The House Oversight committee continued its impeachment inquiry into President Biden by hearing testimony from two of Hunter Bidens former associates. They spoke about their prior interactions with the biden family and alleged connections to chinese and russian business dealings. Lev parnas also testified at the request of democrats. He told lawmakers he was tasked by giuliani defined damaging information on joe biden ahead of the 2020 election to help his reelection chances. Hunter biden was invited to testify, but did not appear at the hearing. [background noises] [background noises] [inaudible conversations] the command oversight and accountability will come to order. I want to welcome everyone here this morning. Without objection the chair may declare a racist at any the committee on oversight will come to order. Welcome here this morning. Without objection, the chairman de
And Vice President , and senator mcconnell said, no, mr. President. We cant. He said, why . We have cosponsors for the immigration bill. And mr. Mcconnell said, just because theyre cosponsors doesnt mean theyre going to vote for it on the republican side. Its the 60 votes and thats what the president couldnt get was the 60 votes and let me just say he was in the tradition of his great father, was in the tradition of ronald reagan. Ronald reagan and George Herbert walker bush protected more a higher percentage of people in their executive orders than barack obama did. Higher percentage of people. In fact, president obama acted because congress didnt act because president reagan acted when congress acted and he said, you didnt do enough. We will do family fairness and he expanded the protections and president George Herbert walker bush continued that work. So the two of the republican president s of our era, president reagan, president George Herbert walker bush and president george w. B
Buildings, recognizing some important person or deed, those type of things. And they are generally agreed to. Despite all the negativity in washington, those are things that we agree to constantly. Both sides of the aisle Work Together on getting accomplished. But we saw very quickly after republicans lost the majority in november of 2006, sometimes Republican Leadership would agree to allow some suspensions to go when it was extremely important, it should never have been brought to the floor on suspension, which means it doesnt go through subcommittee, doesnt go through committee, just comes to the floor without having gone through rules committee, and thats why it takes 2 3 of a vote because its bypassed the normal procedure. So there were a handful of us that decided back in 2007, since Republican Leadership at that time were agreeing to things that we knew our other friends in the republican side, some friends on the democratic side, would never vote for, if it was a recorded vote,
Congress wont do its job. We could have done a lot better and given him the 5. 7 billion he requested. The president must not repeat his mistakes of the recent past. President trump, sign this bill. Neither side got everything it wanted in this bill but both sides want to avoid another shutdown. President trump i appreciate all the work the republicans have done. Theyre going against a radical left. I dont want to see a shutdown. Shutdown would be a terrible thing. Well look at the legislation when it comes and ill make a determination. Sandra kevin corke has the latest from the white house this morning. Kevin, does the white house believe that there is enough time to thoroughly review this massive spending bill before the deadline . Thats the issue. You are so on the money on that. When you think about it. Its the timing. Were talking about going over a massive amount of paperwork. The real issue here white house sources tell me the president hasnt decided whether or not he will sign