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Well. >> you have the reverend saying what manchin came out with was the bare minimum and then this type of opposition from the g.o.p. where does it go from here? >> so, you know, his compromise was dead on arrival. and that is because the republicans don't want to deal with voting rights. remember, they are the party of states rights. so they do not want the federal government. they don't want congress in the midst of making laws that would give us federal standards because, instead, what they want to do is at the state level have a power grab around our democracy. and so they have absolutely...

Equally unacceptable. all republicans, i think, will oppose that as well. >> you have the reverend saying what manchin came out was the bare minimum, and then you have this type of opposition from the gop. where does it go from here? >> so, you know, his compromise was dead on arrival. that is because the republicans don't want to deal with voting rights. remember, they are the party of states rights, so they don't want the federal government. they don't want congress in the midst of making laws that would give us federal standards because instead , what they want to do is at the state level h...

Answers. but the administration is -- you know, they're pushing us to -- they're playing chick question us on forceful action that i think -- i would rather be making laws. i would rather not be in the game of chicken. but they are pushing us there. >> itmpeachment. 134 representatives are in favor of that process beginning. you're not on that list. what are you weighing as all of this unfolds? you see the committee laying out a plan for this investigation to proceed? >> i mean, listen, i think -- first of all, if you want to know what's going on in my district, yes, there are people who ask m...

What is the administrative state? >> well you ministry of state is such a pervasive phenomenon that most people think of as the bureaucracy but it's really much more pervasive than that but it is not only established as an indian institution that are created by government but it also has authority that you could call rational authority that allows politicians to defer to the authority and relieve them of making political decisions that they need to make about things like making laws. when congress delegates laws to bureaucracies it is no longer deliberative. it is no longer doing what lawmakin...

State? >> well you ministry of state is such a pervasive phenomenon that most people think of as the bureaucracy but it's really much more pervasive than that but it is not only established as an indian institution that are created by government but it also has authority that you could call rational authority that allows politicians to defer to the authority and relieve them of making political decisions that they need to make about things like making laws. when congress delegates laws to bureaucracies it is no longer deliberative. it is no longer doing what lawmaking was intended to do which ...