Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up wednesday morning, representative john cap go of new yorks 24th district, a former federal prosecutor, discusses the Opioid Epidemic and the challenges combating it in his home state and around the country. Then, representative joyce beatty of ohio, Congressional Black Caucus member, will talk about the ohio primary results, exit polls, and what it all means for the general election. Be sure to wash cspans washington journal, beginning life at 7 00 a. M. Eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. The House Budget Committee marks of the fiscal year 2017 budget resolution wednesday. And Spending Plans were released on tuesday, and faces opposition from the House Freedom caucus. We will have live coverage of what is expected to be a daylong meeting, starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. The Supreme Court is vested with power, and with it comes response ability. Court forn the 35 year
Steve is on the republican line. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Sharingery much for your time with cspan viewers this 40s. House wharton prides itself on graduate disruptors, and they did a good job with donald. If hillary starts to stumble with her email debacle, would there be time for donald to get on the ballot in all 50 states can see. Thirdparty what happens if he wins a plurality of the votes if he does that . Thank you very much. Guest that is a really important point. Time is already running sure if someone wants to run as a thirdparty because a lot of the ballot deadlines are coming up. If donald trump or anybody were to wait after a convention, it would be too late to get on the ballot. Host there is a piece from the National Journal, halla contested gop nomination, kids contested Gop Convention complicates the veepstakes. Guest it is a unique aspect of this. That is something that my colleague wrote at the National Journal this week. Af it is a convention contested convention,
Lastly, selfrestraint, which checks the wellintentioned urge to shortcircuit government by the people, the kind of restraint that jefferson spoke of when he warned of the unbridled third branch. I want to quote jefferson, our peculiar security is in the possession of a written constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. Or the kind of restraint hamilton spoke of when he said in 1978 that the judiciary was beyond comparison, the weakest of three departments, having Neither Force nor will, but merely judgment. Because he meets this principled standard for confirmation, robert bork has earned my vote. He is a person of unquestioned integrity. His credentials are, as one of our witnesses per day, solid gold. His legal scholarship, together with his record on the bench, make him, in the chief justices view, not mine, as qualified as any candidate who has served the Supreme Court in the last 50 years. In short, he is precisely the kind of person we need on the Supreme Cou
Places. And it comes, as you know, its hard to turn around a ship thats got some momentum and i think what the constant requirement of historians, both professional and amateur, is to try to figure out how to, as we learn new information, say, about Thomas Jefferson and d. N. A. And sally hemings, how do you turn that ship around and say, you know what, guys, the father of our country, the author of our catechism. We hold these truths to be selfevident is the father of sallys children. Henry turn it around is by assuring Political Correctness and say this is the story of the truth of the story. You may not like it. We are not going to be myth makers. We are not going to allied the bits of racial history. Michael you talk about some of the contrasting views within the black community. Its not a single narrative that can capture the complexity. Henry what every white person knows. Michael and Jackie Robinson supported nixon in 1960. Henry yeah. Michael and against paul robeson. How much
202 6280205 for independence. You can also make a comment on social media. Front page of the Washington Post this morning, epa chief agency was too slow to help flint. Over theessed concern issue. Her mccarthy did not use powers until late january. Assuming the state would make good on promises to take decisive measures, the epa did not push michigans Environmental Quality agency hard enough to begin treating the water, mccarthy acknowledged. Often fearod up to he is questioning at a congressional hearing that calls forepublican her resignation, asserting that under the law her agency had done all that it could to residents. Nts 95,000 she refused several times to accept blame for the catastrophe, laying the responsibility. Here is a bit different the hearing yesterday. Gina mccarthy the underlying circumstances that allow it to happen are really ot. Not. As a country, we have a systemic problem in under investing in the Environmental Protection community. This is an Environmental Just