Leading political rivals. It is an incident serious enough to warrant a full investigation by congress, and that is what the house of representatives have decided to do by begetting a formal impeachment inquiry. We have a responsibility to see that all of the facts get out and to consider those facts with the best interest of our country, nothing else, in mind. When i studied our constitution in high school and college, when we learned one of the greatest threats our Founding Fathers feared was foreign interference in our election, i said at the time, why did they care about this . This has not happened in any real sense. Once again, we have learned how the wisdom of the Founding Fathers is relevant to this very day. If a foreign country can actually affect our elections, americans will lose faith in our democracy, this grand and wonderful democracy. So we must guard against that. But at the same time, we have to do two things at once. We can protect our constitution and do things average working families need at the same time, and democrats are intent on pushing for working families. From the very beginning, Senate Democrats have been committed to doing the peoples business. The price of health is too high, incomes are too low, our infrastructure is crumbling, gun violence is an epidemic. Too Many Americans have trouble voting. And our elections remain vulnerable to foreign interference. Climate change is an existential threat to the planet that demands bold and farreaching action. Over the course of his presidency, long before the house investigation, President Trump has failed to offer serious proposals to address any of these issues. In many cases, his policies have made things worse. And while the democratic majority in the house of representatives has passed hundreds of bills dealing with health care, infrastructure, gun violence, and much, much more, the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, has turned our chamber, the senate, into a legislative graveyard. Not one of those bills has even received a vote in the senate. New vote to save protections for people with no vote for people with preexisting conditions, background checks, no vote on bipartisan security legislation, no vote on the violence against women act. So as Congress Comes back into session next week, Senate Democrats have a plan to jolt the senate into action on several important issues. Over the next few weeks, we will force our republican colleagues to vote on whether to protect americans with preexisting conditions, to protect americans from a tax hike, to protect our climate or not. And we will also demand that our republican colleagues take up legislation to protect hard earned pensions for millions of workers that are in danger of losing it right now. As we fulfill our solemn, constitutional duty to hold the president accountable, Senate Democrats will never, never stop putting pressure on leader mcconnell to get the senate back to work for the american people. Announcer 1 cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up sunday morning, we will talk about efforts to impeach President Trump and how it might Impact Campaign 2020, with the daily callers stephanie hamel, and the Vice President of third way national security. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at , 7 00 eastern sunday morning. Join the discussion. Sunday night on q and a, historian jeff quinn discusses his book about the summer road trips taken by henry ford and Thomas Edison between 1914 and 1925. The idea was that they wanted to go have fun, they wanted to demonstrate, you can get in your car and go do these things too. But they werent going to like light their own campfires and eat cold beans out of cans. They werent going to put a blanket on the ground. They had all these different amenities. They had refrigerated cars powered by edison batteries, so they could have fresh dairy, they had chefs who would prepare gourmet meals at night. In the morning they would dress in freshly ironed clothes. But you see, they were so famous, and america was so grateful to them, that that didnt even matter. The point was, we are out in cars traveling and seeing these things. You can do it too. Announcer 1 sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Announcer 2 next california freshman congressman josh harder holds a town hall meeting with constituents in the 10th district in the modesto area. , this is about 45 minutes. [applause] [applause] representative harder thank you. It is good to see