Fromwould prevent it taking place on the scale. You believe the money ought to be in the budget for mailin voting. Maybe you can help us establish some clarity about the president was trying to say. Let me be clear. We have already passed the cares bill, which provides money for the post office. I have watched all the commissioners. There is plenty of money. The difference between mail ballots and absentees. This is a legitimate argument. What happens if you are changing because of covid in california, we have half the people voting absentee. You can sign up to be a permanent absentee. They have had problems because when you apply by absentee it means you are already registered. You are filling out an application. They know what they know it is going to you. L. A. County got sued when they had a million more people on the roles and they actually had. They had to clean up the records. If you change that to an all you sentot, everybody a ballot on the record. That is when you get a problem for some fraud because you dont have signature checks. It is not updated. That is where the president lies. He voted by absentee. He is concerned by mailin ballots and not absentee ballots. He was confused when he was making his message about the post office. He wants to make sure all the public is at the post office. They have more than enough money going in next year. I understand where you draw the distinction. It is not between absentee and mail voting. I have seen those terms used interchangeably. You are drawing a distinction theeen people who request opportunity to vote by mail. That is the distinction. I want to have a check and balance inside our election process. You know you have an honest election because we had a few people plead guilty down in l. A. That they were filling out for Homeless People and others. We watched in new york when they went to an allmail ballot. A third of them did not work for. If you are going to do and absentee ballot, we should make sure our vote counts. We can trace it and follow it. In california they changed the rules. Made it a little bit more who can turn i the ballot in. Oursually go inside curtains and no one can dictate how we vote. Forcing someone else can picking up your ballot and knowing how you vote. I want to make sure we have a check. If i sign my absentee, they check that absentee along with to make registration sure im the same person and some it not voting on my ballot. Our audience will have more questions on this later. We will move on in just a second. One last question on mail before we go and other stuff. Covidid in the time of additional mail voting was a good idea for those concerned about exposing themselves to the virus. California, and this is the distinction were talking about, is sending a ballot proactively to every registered voter. There are several states that are sending ballot applications rather than the ballot themselves to every registered voter, therefore the individual has to send back the application in order to get the ballot. Is that an alternative . It makes it better because just in the last two years, l. A. Got sued because they had one million more people on the role than they actually had roll than they actually had. What happened in the elections office, think how often people move. They dont remove you from the election rolls. They can have four or five People Living in the same location. If you mail everybody in application, you will clean the rolls up. They have to send them back in so you know this is a legitimate individual. Ofis like holding a bunch ballots and putting them on the sidewalk and anybody can pick them up and mail a ballot. You do not know who was picking them up. If you have some kind of check, you have my signature on record for my voter registration. They check to make sure on the same person. Calling theelosi is house back into session to vote on they call a vote on whether or not an additional 25 million 25 billion should be spent on the Postal Service. Will you vote for that or will you instruct your caucus to vote for it or against it . How can we instruct anyone to vote for it . No one has seen it and no one has read it. Where not to play partisanship. It is partisan to be called back. I think we should be called back but not for this. We should deal with covid. We have schools. Summer opening and some trying to plan to open. What are we doing to help me schools safe we have schools safe . We have businesses trying to open up. We have Small Businesses wondering if they can open again when government has shut them down. The ppp program that provided funding to give to their employees was so successful but it only went for two months. Could we extend that . Small businesses and schools and governments wondering if they will get sued. Should we do Liability Protection . You have people unemployed who actually got a bonus, another 15 an hour from the federal government, along with what california gave them. They were getting 24 an hour. That 15 an hour has run out. Maybe we can find Common Ground between that. That is what we should be called back for. To be called back for the Postal Service that already told us they have enough money, a postmaster yesterday who just said he will have no changes between now and the election, i dont know why we would vote on anything that would not change any of the outcomes. It is more a political nature of why we are coming back. Just to clarify, Speaker Pelosi said she wants congress to deal with a covid relief package before late september when you come back to deal with the broader budgetary questions. How quickly what you Bring Congress back into session to deal with covid relief . She has all the power. She said before august we would not leave until we dealt with it. Apparently that is not true. Now she postponed it, let everybody leave. I understand congress at times has a problem making deadlines. Ive always understood, be it at the state legislature or congress, once you get to the deadline people start paying attention more. If they thought they would be able to leave and keep them there, they will make their decisions sooner. I would never let it leave. I think covid is too important. I think the economy is too important. This is where the speaker and i have had differences of opinion. Done therell we have are times were Speaker Pelosi has i was trying to get in a Liability Protection for 3m. They make different masks. Some you would use. A doctor would use them in a surgical setting. It is frustrating to sell it to the public and get sued. We wanted to do Liability Protection would have given us 30 million more masks. We could not get that in. When we were dealing with the cares act, schumer said he was ready to go and pelosi said no. I did not think that was a reason. When the ppp program does so well we watched the money running out. Secretary of the treasury requested more money. Add more money to a program we already voted for. She opened up ever frigid and said no and held it up for another week. I dont think this is a moment in time. We will disagree on some things but we can find Common Ground when he came to covid on things we can agree to. Lets do those. The other things that dont deal with covid, we put aside for another day. Lets not delay longer. What do you do when people are trying to pay the rent and they are not getting their check again . It creates new problems in the financial markets. Lets talk more about the covid package. Im sure you knew before the rest of us that Senate Republicans are moving forward with a covid relief package. Roy blunt of missouri said the 300lation will include for weekly on employment benefits. Those can last for the end of the year. That is extra. 300 on top of the states payments. Includes some additional money for education and for virus testing. It is not include a renewal of a onetime direct payment of up to 1200 for taxpayers and dependents. I dont know if this is a bill or informal proposals. Are you familiar with what Senate Republicans are proposing . Are you comfortable with it . Leaders talking to mcconnells office this morning. Its an opportunity when we are back to work. I have another difference of opinion with the speaker. I believe congress is essential. Through every crisis we have had in this country, from yellow fever, the civil war, world war ii, 9 11, congress met. We even met when they burned the capital. I dont think we should be staying home and voting by proxy. I think we should be working. Thisnk people would call these are all things everyone in congress has agreed to. The senate has different rules. It takes 60 votes. People have differences of opinion. They did not put it in the bill. Lets do the things we agreed upon and get that also people dont hurt any longer. I think that is an approach to go. If that gets denied, kind of like Police Reform where they wont let it come up for debate, that becomes a problem. You have to have 60 votes to even get a debate. We have senator tim scott talking about the Police Reform bill. I would like to come back to that later if we have time. A couple of particular points about the covid bill and the differences between the two, what the speaker is proposing and what we heard from senator blunt. Daysu know, i teach these at uc berkeley and the university of Southern California and pepperdine. I am proud that i not only have two former students working on your staff but on the speaker staff as well. I brag about them all equally. One of the biggest differences between the two is the metafunding for education, both k12 and higher ed. How do you see those differences getting resolved . What do you tell students and parents about how you feel the best way is to solve the differences between you and the speaker . I like to write bills based upon data. ,f i take the democrats bill that was 3 trillion. I did not vote for that bill for a number of recent. 100ere they had about billion. In the Senate Proposal republicans had more for schools. 105 billion. Now the request has gone higher. If i get numbers wrong is because i have meetings in my mind might come to what they are requesting. Now they are requesting 400 billion. Im not sure where that number comes from. I would like to do something for the schools. I know the schools are opening now. Republicans offered more than what the democrats had passed. It is similar to again. Somebody else offered more snow i have to ask for more. That is not a reason to hold the bill up. I would take what people agreed and see if we can get to places to find Common Ground. It is like unemployment. When we crafted the unemployment onesizefitsall does not work. The unemployment you need in bakersfield is different than new york city. We where in such a rush because covid was coming, we voted to the extension to the 31st. With the ppp program we learned we needed more flexibility for Small Business. We found Common Ground there. We had republicans and democrats working in committees crafting the cares act based on their expertise. That was a great moment. The difference is it is leadership only negotiating. I think every member should apply and those members and their expertise areas. Let them work together. Kind of what we did on the cares bill on the senate side. Republicans and democrats focusing on that section. You work to that. If we can come together, bring it all to one package, that works really well. We found Common Ground. As you teach government, no one side gets every thing they want. Our government is designed to find compromise. Right now we are just finding reasons not to go forward. I dont know if that is because we have an election. We are in a different time with covid. That should not be a part of it and that is why Police Reform should not be a part of that either. The california state register where you start as republican leader before being elected to Congress Passed a budget how governor gavin newsom signed that predicates a huge amount of state spending on education, health care, and other issues. The spending is predicated on money from the federal government. Was that a mistake . I dont know. When i was growing up i watched popeye and i ate a hamburger today and pay for it on tuesday. I dont think that is how i would run a state. If something came in, i would add onto that. I think that is better planning from that standpoint. I think the federal government can get together. I think of the speaker would call us back the reason you ise a break in august d. C. Used to be a swamp. They dont have rolling blackouts like california. I would make members go back and work. Speaking of rolling not the white are House Press Secretary but the republican leader in the house of representatives, the president said yesterday in California Democrats have intentionally implement it rolling blackouts. As you know from your time in the state, those decisions are made by the California Independent system operator. Great deal of electricity to all of california. We are number one when it comes to solar. Number one when it comes to wind. Number one when it comes to oil production. We have geothermal. I have nuclear just outside. Averageornia we pay on 40 more for our electricity than other states. Now when we are sitting in a state that is having a heat wave and you cant guarantee whether you will have electricity, you the watery own town filtration for the city, some will have to be shut down. There is an ability to have solar but at the same time you shouldnt have to turn it off when the sun goes down. There is ability to have wind but you shouldnt have to turn it off on the wind will blow. You need all of the above. Especially if we are paying more than everyone else and you cannot guarantee it, the president s right about those policies. They are not delivering for those in california in a time when they need it. In just one minute i will turn this over to jessica. She has piles and piles of questions from our audience. I will step aside. Before i step aside, one must question i would like to ask you. Universityate announced they were shutting down all classes. Notre dame announced yesterday they would delay the start of fall classes. University of North Carolina made the same announcement. The pacific 12 in the big ten athletic conferences have both decided to delay all fall sports, including College Football, which is a term it is cultural and economic import and a lot of states. The big ten and pack 12 decided to delay their schedule until january at the earliest. Other conferences, other schools, other parts of the country are going forward. Given there is Additional Information indicating young people are more susceptible to the coronavirus than originally thought what would your position be on whether or not college sports, specifically football, should or should not attempt to go forward this fall . Having never had the athletic ability to play collegelevel but High School Level football, you have a short time playing for eligibility in college. Either you give them another year of eligibility if they cant play. If they dont to play i would look at the ability to still be able to if they can. Manner,play in a safe if they have the ability to go, i would give them the option. I do this based upon speaking to people who played. Conscio conscientious member said it helped individuals to keep them together. It changed their way of life. Ability to make that happen. When im looking at therapeutics and vaccines, i know tomorrow is going to be better than today. I know what it means to people at the same time. I dont think one person should say, especially to the people that they cannot do it. Tell them all the risks, all the options, and let them choose. If they choose not to, dont punish them for that choice. Give them another year of eligibility. If they have the capability, let them try. Audience whoof our are usc, ucla, and tsu bakersfield fans, you are not calling for the shutdown. Are you saying that an athlete by athlete basis or a school by school basis or conference by conference basis . You have to have somebody else to play. At least usc and ucla should play each other for the good of Southern California. Maybe they play each other three times. Just so those who want to play can. It might not be easy. It does affect the on the record ratio. These are healthier people. I wear a whoop. It measures your respiratory. If any the respiratory goes up, dont come to work. We will have therapeutics that can keep you safe or a number of months. Alico promising the vaccines are. I think this year we will have a vaccine. My cup is always half full. For the same reason why i became a republican. Abraham lincoln, not knowing whether our nation would stay together, he built the intercontinental raiwlway. The idea that we will quit everything and shut down, i dont think it is the best mode. I want to make sure people are safe. I want to practice safety but continue my life. That is my choice. I want to give people the choice. I dont government to tell me i cant anything. I am fine wearing a mask in keeping safe distance. I wash my hands constantly and i want to be respectful of others. I also want to have my chance, a opportunity. Someone who like would like to watch College Football this fall if possible. Recordnote for the representative mccarthy announced he became a republican along with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. [laughter] me why i became a republican, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, ronald reagan. All three porches i have in my office. If anybody challenges me on my belief, i was not born to this party. I chose the party. I am proud of what Abraham Lincoln st