CONGRESS: WE THE PEOPLE
CONGRESS: WE THE PEOPLE
13.31.54-Rep. TOM DASCHLE (D-SD) speaking on a farm, talking about the Depression conditions for farmers. Shots of Farmers listening to Daschle. Daschle in a D.C. press conference showing a scrapbook of hundreds of farm auctions. DASCHLE in office discusses his plan to enhance farm income through subsidies and crop limits. Shots of Daschle staffers on phones. Rep. DASCHLE talks on the phone. Shots of House Agriculture Committee meeting. Farmers as witnesses introduce themselves, one says that farms are in a state of Depression. Daschle v.o.-sometimes farmers are preaching to the choir when talking to the Agriculture Committee since almost all the members are close to farm interests. Shot of a farmer lamenting the low turnout in the committee hearing. Rep. ED de la GARZA (D-CA) says that the farmers should know that the committee members are interested in their problems even if they're not sitting in the room. 13.34.34-Ornstein-some members take committee assignments to further a personal or ideological agenda. Shot of Sen. Jeremiah Denton (D-Ala.) in a committee hearing in which Republicans claim that Planned Parenthood is using federal funds to contribute to moral degeneracy among the youth. Short clip of a P.P. video titled "About Sex". Shots of Senators Denton and Orrin Hatch with a display of Sex Ed materials. Sen. ORRIN HATCH describes the "immoral tone" of the Sex Education materials. V.O.-committee hearings like this are mostly about making public statements on issues rather than making policy. Shot of Sen. HOWARD METZENBAUM in committee, Sen. HATCH denies that the hearing is a vehicle for Conservatives to hammer their viewpoints, says the panel is "balanced", everyone in the audience laughs loudly, Hatch testily calls for order. 13.36.36-Ornstein-members of Congress use committees to pontificate on issues like teen chastity on a regular basis. Newman-Committees often overlap, Committees battle for jurisdiction over different issues. Shot of Anne Gorsuch, EPA director, talks about the scope of committees that oversee her agency. Shot of Gorsuch testifying to a committee. Shot of Gary Hart interrogating her. V.O.-Democrats in 1981 and 1982 were suspicious of Gorsuch's leadership of the EPA, thinking that she was slack on Toxic Waste cleanup [which she was]. Sen. Pat Moynihan tells Gorsuch that her agency needs to follow Congress' direction. Gorsuch insists that the EPA is following regulations, Moynihan says that EPA budget is constantly being reduced, so Gorsuch must have some role in flouting the Congress' directions. 13.39.12