Meet with Senate Majority leader. Theen senate republins and white house on their covid relief bill. No agreement yet. The bill is supposed to beqy th. Lisa from the associated pressh security payroll taxes as re trillion rescue package on thursday. Opposition among allies. Fox news follows up with back and forth with mr. Mnuchin about the payroll tax saying, when asked if that oposal had a payroll tax cut, he replied, que,ot. Focused onting money to woers right now. The payroll tax takes time so well come back and look at that. Back in we want thoughts on a question we considered earlier about the house voting from political political and the campus. If you support or oppose at id. 2027488000. It, ia sites available as 1. Contributes two statuesople of to the National Statuary hall with contributions ranging revolutionary war hero, helen keller. The bill specifically mentionsr calhoun, and clark whom it a ma segregation. The bill also calls for removal of a bust of former Supreme Court chief justice, roger taney, who wrote the infamous 1857ch declared slaves were not citizens and did not have the right to sue. That to place on the house. Debate leading up to this vote whh 70plus republi qns supported. Heres what california representative Tom Mcclintock had to say aut the tok i have o problems with honors this rebellion. Thats not what this bill by ree bust of from the old Supreme Court the absolutely worst decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court, the dred scott decision. He also in of its better decisi the am mistad if we remove memorials to every pers in this build made a bad decision, his was the worst, this would be a very barren place, indeed. Its only the bad things in our history that we can use to measure all of the good things in our history. This bill also of confederate sympathizers sent to the capitol by the states. Thats not our decision that. Is a decision that has always belonged to the individual states and several of them are already ming these decisions. We should let them. The only other is johnidge of ks honored not for his service to the confedevcy but r vice presf the United States. And granted, we have had some absolutely terrible Vice President s through our history, and im sure we will in the future. But if we are going to start down that road, we are going to be swapping out statues like Trading Cards at the whim of the moment. Host that was californias mcintock who talked about the legislation. Someone also giving commentrom yester was mississippi representative bennie thompson. Mr. Thompson it is fitting and proper that those individuals who fought to keep of our ancestors enslaved should not have to be recognized in a place where people who do good expect to be recognid. This is no erasing history, it is a way of correcting history so that those people who come and see it will see it in a manner for which its presented. So at the endf hope we all will be on the same is not your color, it isyour rat we have to stand for something. Our values should mean something as americans. And so this bill e dbat america stands for. Jus weshould not recognize in r are together. Traitors have a place, but not in of honor. Host now to your thoughts on the issue. Alabama on our oppose line, good morning. Caller yes, sir. Thank you for having me. I think that some of the statues should be replaced, but at the same time a special place there in d. C. , a special museum there. If they are ing they have to re all, starting with George Washington because he was a slave owner. Jefferson was a sla jewish people bought the slaves from earlier african tribes and brought them here to this country. I do not think they should have been treated as slaves. I think they should have been treated and given an educati tas humans tstart with. There should never have been slavery. Thats just the way it is. Host ok. Well hear fm brenda, dayton, ohio, on the oppose line. Go ahead. Caller i oppose. Host why . Caller because i believe our statues that are in place are perfect as they are. If everybody knew their history they were no different. Host ok. Thats brenda from dayton. Christopher on f in congress no matter their should stay, if the statues are confederate sympathizers or soldiers then out they go. Muriel strand says, like flags and statues removing statues is symbolic. I would rather talk about reparations, economic li and social and ecological suainability. Kimberly williams says that she supports it. Losers shouldnt get participation trophies. Traitors should never have had statues in the capitol. Marcela saying they are part of some dark days and nights in american history. Put them in a museum, not a place of honor. Only as history was written. Linda next, from knoxville, iowa. Caller i owe tose it i oppose it because im tired of everything being replaced. We need to get back to learning in the schools about the history of these people. We do not need to tear everything down. Lets go back to a world where we are in love with our country nstead of such hate. Katherine in die yana, texas, good rning. Also diana, texas, good morning. Also on the oppose line. Caller i dont feel like they should be tearingb anything do. A history. Its something that they could look back on and say, well, ts is what happened back then. And its just a long time story. Host jimmy in florida, on our ppjimmy, good morning. Caller im for getting rid of all the statues, confederate sympathizers, im also for getting rid of the statue of Abraham Lincoln because he also enslaved the indians when he ordered them to be removed from nebraska and sent to reservation in oklahoma. I dont think we should have statues of anybody anywhere. In again the house cominba in about six minutes. Make your thoughts known on what you think about this move by st. 2027488000 if you support it. 2027488001 if you oppose it. Some of the things youll see on the house floor exerns alexandria ocasiocortez. Representative ocasiocortez forcefully rejected a republican colleagues words of contrition od to apologize for referring to her with a vulgar and sexist expletive the night he uttered the words. Ve ted yoho,ppeared on the house floor on wednesday to express regret fortrife intod being quote, abrupt confrontation this week with ms. aasiocortez, democrat of new york. I rise today to apologize for the abrupt manner of the conversation i had with my colleague from new york. It is true that we disagree on policies and visions for america, but that does not mean tweet after be disrespectful. Representative yohos worn she apologize or name any action he did. Does not accept responsibility. Lies. This was not a crs verbal assau poverty. Ironically, and says everyone else is wrong and the incident never happened. This is not an apology. We are getting reports on the house floor today that the representative is comment on these comments made you can watch for that. Ivy is7 joining us from kitty hawk, North Carolina support line. Ivy, hello. Caller good morning. I do support removal because we should be they should be in a museum. Host ok. Why is that . Caller well, because if we are going to learn÷ history and in light of the representative lewis passing and for the purpose of his lifes work i think out of honorndim we should move o t they should e learned about in a museum and the history of them. Not to be place where people lookp this is a disrespectful way to the citizens of our country right now. Theres home, theres pe streets. Federalization of being gassed, have the dren, you cant right to protest, to peaceful protest. St okgo to carl in hyattsville, maryland, oppose line. Hello. Caller hello. Ho thank you for having me. Citizen and i am opposed to removing all of our history. I am a black man. Ihavent he say anything removing democracy for the fact of theqemocrats fought and died tomoval of slavery. They want it. They represented slavery. No one ever talks about that. Do we want to remove the Democratic Party . No, we cantt. Host historical figures, why do you oppose their removal . Caller i oppose their r of o history, our children, our grandchildren need to know our we just cant remove we have to teach our children . Jonesboro, georgia on our calleryes. Museum. It shouldn be out in publit. We as the United States supposed to united. You cant be united without versity. Ese parties, the confederate party, was against diversity. I diaperville, hello. Good morng sir. I support removal of the confederate statues by the democrats. Those are their statues. The democrats were the party of and i considerny confedete statue in a public area atu of treason. The president of eoff davis, wa arrested for treason. Y committed treaso we movof the statues would be fine with me. From larry in illinois. The house is just about to come in, go ahead. Caller i was jus wondering why all of this didnt me up when obama was in office and the democrats had control if they are so worried about it this is a political move. It has nothing to do with the confederacy. Thank you. Host sues of appropriations are expected to take place on the house side today. The senat Defense Authorization act up for thiseek. Up, as well as the senate side abou the next coronaviruse. Stay clo to cspan and cspan. Org for all the activity going on cap hhe house of representatives