law enforcement and family and talked about how much cocaine and mekt is in our communities. 72,000 americans died. think about that. hat is more individuals that died of of a drug ore of over dose. ore people than last year than died in car accidents and homicide. you put it together, it doesn't equal. we have got to stop this. part of the drugs coming across is fentanyl. they caught 1.2 tons of this drugs and that is enough to kill every person in the united states.

only takes two milligrams of felt nil. that could kill that many people. they seized enough cocaine to ill more than 141, one-ton pickups. we have a poster. we all know what a pickup looks like. if you could picture, 141 of hese pickup trucks fill of cocaine. that is how much they caught. we don't know how much they caught. and they caught methamphetamine over ill 124 pickups, three tons of heroin. 90% of heroin in the united states comes from across the southern border.

we have an opioid crisis in this country and i'm doingering in my direct to do everything we can and heroin is the type of opioid. and 90% of that is coming across our southern border. and people being impacted by the drug kice is. this mother and son on the far right-happened side, she was addicted to meth and gave meth and he was drug addicted. the young man in the middle, he assed away due to a heroin overdose. and she is trying desperately to

get off drugs but lost custody, but we have a cost todd in our foster system. find having trouble to foster parents. and it's not safe for them to be home. so we have a drug crisis and we have tons, literally, tons of drugs pouring across our southern border and we have to find $5.7 billion. it's more about our drugs, but it's our safety and security. our customs and border control interdifficulted individuals who had a criminal record, that's how many they caught. there is a lot of people that make it cs that is in our country because we don't have a

border and end up hurting our families. our hearts brook for a police officer from california who did and ht who came it right whose dream, he went through the academy. and he drove four hours every day to complete his police academy and he was so broud proud. he was respected and he was amazing and he what brave and legal immigrant and then sadly, right around christmas, he was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant someone who came across the southern border. you wonder why with think it is important to secure the southern border.

the families who are losing their children to drugs and we have to find the money. and my colleagues and i wanted o share why it is so we get it done. i would like to invite my colleague from west virginia, representative carol miller and hare your perspective. you political plilt i speak about the important issue of border of security. we are amidst on the crisis of our southern border and we have

to stop playing politics and start focusing on our national security. while washington democrats tow the party line and oppose president trump and anything he sports, our nation is under sault from unchecked illegal immigration, from terrorists, from human traffickers and from drug smugglers. sadly, as west virginia and the nation are battling an opioid democrats continue to turn a blind eye. e amount of fentanyl and heroin confiscated was enough to kill every man, women and child in the the united states. the security of our nation rests

with a strong border. we kneeled to build this wall. thank you for the opportunity to discuss this important issue. i yield back to congresswoman hartzler. mrs. hartzler: i appreciate your comments tonight. it is a serious matter and we are having this conversation and i appreciate my colleague, mr. lamalfa for being here this evening and you are the first person and we had a discussion. appreciate to hear what you think we need to do. you in fa: i join migrate concern in the concern. i depee with my president. been ignored for far too long

and i can name three names from the top of my head that are the sign of our pourous borders. stein lie lee, most an meal shaw and ecently, a police officer, did it the rite way, his family and serving in honor to keep our treets safe, all mowed down. some will downplay this. some will downplay this. they have barriers. d preventing illegal

trafficking. in san diego, it has decreased since a physical barrier was constructed. few constructions that i could see as a win. the fact is these barriers work. long stretches were more sturdy etion but my democrat col know this but obstructing. then in reaching a compromise, secure our border. . . this is only a few years after passionate speeches by major democratic leaders, we see president clinton -- we see mrs. clinton, senator schumer, as well as president clinton at this dais a few years ago, passionately speaking about the need for this it's about giving border patrol agents the tools

they need to be successful in protecting our nation's sovereignty from gun running, human trafficking and the mass flow of high-risk drugs as eloquently outlined by mrs. hartzler by violent gangs that have free access to the borders. the inaction by our democratic colleagues is telling. they're happen toy leave the border as it is. i believe the overwhelming majority of americans are not happy with this. they want sloughs. for border security, for the coyotes preying on those that are seeking passage into this country, unspeakable things that happen to women in these crossings by these coyotes and others that take advantage of them. is that compassion? legal entry we seek. for people that seek war permits for agriculture and other work needs. a daca solution we can all come to the table and find common ground on. so indeed, real negotiations

need to happen in good faith to reopen our government and secure our border. as is our duty to our sovereign nation that we swear an oath to protect. i yield back, thank you, mrs. hartzler. mrs. hartzler: thank you, gentleman. you make a great point about the safety of the individuals who are coming here. because we have this open border, it's incentivizing people to make this very dangerous trek. doctors without borders has reported that 30% of the women who make this trek that have given their money to coyotes to bring them here are sexually assaulted. this should be upsetting for anyone. that's another reason i believe we need to close the border and then enable and help and work with individuals to come here legally. and i think you make a great point too in that there's a lot of negotiation that could take place right now if the democrats would be willing to sit down. we do have the daca situation.

we do need more workers. we need to work on our visas. we need to reform our immigration laws so that individuals like police officers -- police officer singh and others who want to come and contribute can come and -- can come here easierism support legal immigration. let's sit down and talk about the changes that need to be made to our immigration system and let's also secure our nation. and i would like to invite my colleague from georgia, representative allen to share your thoughts on this matter. what do you think -- why do you think it's important that we secure our board her mr. allen: thank you, representative hartzler for your efforts and organizing this special order this evening as we continue to fight for the safety and security of our fellow americans and i want to highlight safety and security because that is our number one role in this country. madam speaker, i rise tonight with many of my colleagues to

address the significance of this crisis we are facing in our southern border. just last week, president trump addressed the nation from the oval office for the first time about the importance of border security. and mentioned the devastating story of robert paige who was violently murdered by an illegal immigrant in my home state of georgia. a 76-year-old grandfather's life was needlessly cut short at the hands of an individual who was in our country illegally. there are far too many families in our country coping with tragic loss like this as a result of insufficient border security. bottom line, whatever we're doing for border security is not working. we must do more. and that's not to mention the illegal drugs that are coming into the united states. as the president mentioned in his letter to congress, 300 americans are killed every week

from heroin. and 90% of that heroin comes across that southern border. this is humanitarian and national security crisis, my friends, and it must be addressed immediately and it must be done properly. we're supposed to be a nation of laws. ow can we stand by and let lawlessness continue? i ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to keep the best interests of the american citizens in mind as they continue to deny funds for commonsense solutions to this growing crisis. it is this body, this is -- it is the united states congress that appropriates funds. then it is sent to the president. i say this. congress, appropriate the funds. let's build the wall. let's send the bill to the president. and reopen this government. with an average of 60,000 illegals a month on our southern border, our law enforcement

professionals must have the additional resources to successfully execute their jobs and keep the american people safe. from the day president trump announced his candidacy, he made it clear that border security was a priority in his ad-- and his administration has been built on promises made or promises kept. i could tell you that the good folks in georgia's 12th district want to secure our border with a wall. we want to do it the right way. we must stand behind our president. security of our nation depends on it. with that, i yield back. mrs. hartzler: you made some excellent remarks, thank you, representative, 300 deaths a day due to overdoses, opioid crisis with 90% of that opioids coming across the southern border. that's why we've got to secure the border and i agree, we have a humanitarian crisis, 60,000 illegals caught a month trying to cross our border. 60,000 a month.

you know -- in missouri's fourth district we don't have many towns that even have 60,000 individuals. s that a lot of people per month coming across. so now i'd like to invite my colleague from michigan, representative tim walberg, thank you for coming tonight, look forward to hearing what you have to share about this important topic. mr. walberg: i thank my colleague and madam speaker, i thank my colleague from missouri for taking this hon -- taking this on this evening to make a point that we're not just talking politics here. we're talking lives. we're talking freedom. we're talking opportunity, we're talking security. we must secure our border, madam speaker. driving to the detroit airport today to fly here, i took note of the number of walls that have been erected along interstate 94. just to secure the communities

developed along the highway from noise and sight problems. we take a lot of effort to do those type of things but we have some people that for some reason , political, i believe, want to stop a wall or a barrier from being developed that the people of this country want to see. not because as has been said that we hate people outside of the walls, it's that we love people inside of the walls. and we want to pass that love on to people who desire the american dream and to be part of the american ideal. we see 31% of all the women migrating up from the southern countries who are sexually assaulted on the way up. 17% of the males have been sexually assaulted on the way up. we have a human trafficking problem that reaches all across the united states. a lot of those problems result

from a border wall that is not secured. we have an opioid epidemic in our country that's devastating, dreams of a generation or more. too many families in my district and your districts know the pain and suffering that coming from -- comes from this crisis. just a couple of months ago, our community lost a young man, christopher reiser, from jackson, a wonderful young guy, a good athlete in high school and starting in college until he got caught in the opioid heroin abuse trap. fighting to extricate himself from it. surviving from it. he fought the battle value yently. went through a number of treatment centers. came out, began to work his life forward. i had the privilege of going to a number of forums speaking to high school students and others, telling his story of the bat that will he faced and what he was doing to try to succeed and change.

but it was just two months ago that he lost that battle and i stood in front of his open are we doingought, everything we can to secure our people against this type of scourge? madam speaker, i suggest we aren't. if we're unwilling for political reasons to stop a president, to stop many members of this congress, from doing what we know needs to be done, all of us have heartbreaking stories from our back home experiences, families that are losing loved ones far too soon. i'm proud of the bipartisan work we have done to combat the opioid crisis. sitting on the energy and commerce committee, i saw the numbers of bills that we put forward. i believe 70 in all. seeing the president sign that

just last november. but we must redouble our efforts. and as we do that, one priority is to -- is that we must keep these deadly drugs off our streets in the first place. in face call year 2018 alone, u.s. customs and border patrol seized a total of 1.7 million pounds of markets. to curb the flow of drug into our communities, we must secure our southern bored. there's no doubt we need a comprehensive solution. a border wall is just one component of what we need to do. we also need more surveillance technology, more border agents, more resources to address the humanitarian crisis at the border. yes, but as the experts at the border tell us, a border wall, a security barrier, must be part of that solution. at a time when hundreds of americans die each week from

overdoses, we need to give our border agents all the tools they need to stem the tide of these deadly drugs and to protect them as well. it's time for speaker pelosi to get serious about border security, to negotiate to a solution. let's stop the political games. and negotiate a solution that keeps the american people safe. keep ill list drugs off our streets. puts an to end this partial shutdown and may i suggest as well, gives greater opportunity and security to those who deem it their purpose in life to legally, legally experience the american dream. we want to see that happen, madam speaker. with that, i yield back. mrs. hartzler: so powerful. thank you for sharing christopher's story. can't imagine how helpest that made you feel to stand at his casket at his funeral and to realize that we here in congress have passed a lot of bills

dealing with opioids to address this, but yet there's still -- it's still flowing across our country, our border, we need to do more. thank you for sharing that story. weand do, need to work in a bipartisan fashion and these bills that representative walberg talked about were passed in a bipartisan fashion. over 70 bills. democrats and republicans came together last year and said this is a crisis, let's send this. now we need to complete that. we need to complete and stop them from coming in to begin with, in addition to continue to provide money for people in treatment and our law enforcement and mental health issues and those other things to go after the opioid crisis but we need to stop them flowing here to begin with. so thank you for sharing that. i now would like to invite the gentleman from texas, who is right there, talk about on the border. right through the state of texas, along the edge. thank you for being here tonight, mr. jody arrington, what would you like to say about

this topic? mr. arington: i'm like to say i'm very concerned to my friend and the gentlelady from arizona. to put it mildly. i'm troubled. i'm troubled that our nation, and our nation's leaders here in this great body of the united states house of representatives, would not put politics aside and put our country and our citizens' safety first. it's the number one job. it's the most important job. to provide for common defense and to ensure the safety of the united states citizens and that is, we can never be distracted from that and we can never allow partisan politics from fulfilling that first responsibility and duty. i think i thank the gentlelady for her leadership and for bringing this discussion to the floor so that we can speak

directly to the american people about our strong support for our command for the chief who is simply asking for the tools and resources to do that which he ran for the presidency on and was elected to do and is now doing everything with unwavering commitment to follow through on that promise to secure the border and border walls, barriers, are a fundamental component of security. and as a texan, i can tell you, being on the frontlines, and you know this, being on the frontlines as well from the great state of arizona that this is costing our state billions of dollars, $12 billion in the great state of texas. and it's -- we see the drugs that are flowing in and the gangs and the crimes and the criminal activities. ere's a statistic, since 2011, 186,000 illegal immigrants were charged with more than 290,000

criminal offenses. . costing more than $1 billion. but tearing apart families. devastating communities. and this president is asking for the resources necessary to secure our border. i find it, mrs. hartzler, ironic that democrats have spoken in favor and have even supported physical barriers. and you've mentioned that. i won't go through it again. but it's ironic. i find it hypocritical that speaker pelosi has talked about walls being immoral when she spent probably half of her life being protected by those very walls. and i find it disingenuous that democrats have said that they actually want to do something to secure the border. they just don't want to have anything to do with walls or fencing. ok, well, i've got a list and i don't have enough time, but we put last congress, which was my first term in congress, several

bills to do just that. secure the border and stop illegal immigration. from kate's law to no sanctuary for criminal aliens, securing america's future -- future. 188 democrats voted no. kate's law, 166 democrats voted against it. securing america's future act to give daca recipients a piece of mind, 190 democrats voted against it. then they were trying out to say we have to abolish i.c.e., abolish the people who risk their lives to keep us safe. then a resolution. very simple. we support you. we love you. we're behind you. we know what a tough job you have. and 183 -- let me get back. i want to get the facts here straight. 133 democrats voted present. 34 voted against that resolution. i wonder how that makes the folks in uniform who defend this country, protect our communities, feel. listen, mrs. hartzler, thank you for your generosity and allowing me to speak in your

time. and during this special order. i just call on my colleagues, my democrat colleagues, and the democrat leaders to be leaders. not politicians. and put this country first. and work in good faith with this president who has been willing to negotiate every step of the way, to secure this border and protect our people. god bless america. and i yield back to my friend. mrs. hartzler: great. thank you so much for sharing those heartfelt words and those statistics. they really matter. i totally agree with you that our number one job is to keep america safe. our number one job is to keep america safe. so that's why we are wanting to find 5ds.7 billion to build -- $5.7 billion to build the wall and reopen government. now i'd like to invite another gentleman from texas, representative gohmert, to share your thoughts on where we're at today. mr. gohmert: i thank the

gentlelady for not only your service, but also this special order. this is such an important issue. having spent so many nights all night on the border, it is incredible what you see down there. but what is even worse is what the border patrol can tell but, things that you can -- you about, things that you can find on the internet, there are videos, there are pictures. i have daughters. there's some things i just would rather not see. but as long as our border is poress, as long as we don't have a wall or fence where we need it, people are being drawn into this country. mexico alone has about 130 million people. obviously we can't have anflux of 100 million people without -- an influx of 100 million people without destroying the

economy and then we're no longer able to provide life to so much of the world -- light to so much of the world. but if we secure our border, wall, fence, barriers where we need it, it cuts off the tens of billions, maybe over 100 billion now, going to the drug cartels and the corruption comes to a crawl. but as long as we have this poress border, we are funding some of the most evil, horrendous human tragedy that's oing on anywhere in the world. there are police, they try to stand up, it's not hard to see pictures, find the stories, mayor, they end up with their ead cut off and put on a pike. how calloused, how

mean-spirited does somebody have to be, how politically driven to say, we don't care about that. this is a political issue, we don't want the president to have a win. so we're just going to let the border stay as poress as it is. .hey talk of rape trees where women are tied to the rees and repeatedly raped. objectively groups say that ybe 37% or more are molested sexually, normally multiple times. how callous do you have to be to say, yeah, but this is political, it's helping our party, we want to keep it going. it's time to do the right thing

by the people of the united states. and, for heaven's sake, to do the right thing by the people of mexico. i yield back to my friend, mrs. hartzler. mrs. hartzler: thank you, gentleman. to your point, again, reminder that in 2006, 64 democrats in the house joined republicans to pass the secure fence act, to build 700 miles of border along -- on the border. including barack obama, hillary clinton, and chuck schumer. and then the next year there was some money in an appropriations bill for the wall and speaker pelosi and majority leader hoyer voted for it. and so i think you're right. it's time to work together and to get this done. i'd like to invite a new member of congress here to share, from

tennessee. dr. marques green. glad that you're here -- dr. mark green. glad that you're here. glad you're serving here in the body. being a former service member from the army, who is part of the elite unit that helped capture saddam hussein, you know a little bit about security. so, appreciate you sharing your thoughts on where we're at tonight. thank you. mr. green: thank you. thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to thank my distinguished colleague from missouri for putting this special order together, highlighting the need for border security. and to put, most importantly, to put our american citizens first. we can spend our time debating what a physical barrier should consist of, but let's make one thing clear. whether it's in the form of a wall or a fence or some barrier, combined with 21st century surveillance technology and increased border patrol agents, a barrier is an effective defense against entry by criminals, gang members, drug smugglers and, yes, even

terrorists. my colleagues across the aisle are now arguing that physical barriers are ineffective. some have seed even said they're immoral -- have even said they're immoral. this is not the position they held in the recent past. president trump has asked for $5.7 billion to help secure the border. under president obama democrats were willing to spend $40 billion for border security. what's changed? is it possible the only difference is the occupant in the white house? some argue that border security is not necessary because too few known or suspected terrorists have been captured on the southern border. they say only eight have been captured. i would suggest to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle one terrorist gaining entry into this country is too many. i'd like to point out that there were only 19 terrorists who carried out the attacks on 9/11. just 19. the fact that we know isis is

encouraging their followers to try to enter the united states across our poress southern border should itself warrant better scrutiny. this leads me to direct some questions to my colleagues and friends across the aisle. is it worth the risk? is it worth the possibility that one or two or a dozen or 19 terrorists could cross our southern border? and carry out an attack that kills innocent american men and women? i'd pay $5.7 billion to stop the next 9/11. terrorism is not the only threat to our national security. in 2017 an estimated 72,000 americans died from drug overdoses with the biggest increase in drug overdose deaths being attributed to fentanyl and heroin. it's been reported that roughly 85% of the fentanyl and 90% of the heroin is coming across our

southern border. does that death toll not warrant putting aside the issues with our president long enough on this national crisis to fund additional barriers, to fund additional and better drug detection technology and surveillance technology to try to stop the flow of these deadly drugs across our southern border? would it be worth it if we saved 1,000 lives? 100, a dozen? what number would justify putting differences aside and joining this effort? thank you, madam speaker, for this opportunity. i yield back. mrs. hartzler: thank you so much, from your perspective, both from a doctor, as well as military officer. you're speaking of security, it means a lot. i think that's a good question. what number is it going to take

before we -- going to take, are we really going to say, let's work together, let's do this? i think we need to sit down right now and i'm hopeful maybe this week we'll do that. i'd like to have my colleague from south carolina, mr. ralph norman, come share what you think may be we can do this week -- maybe we can do this week, get this government opened, and at the same time secure our border? mr. norman: thank you, madam speaker. congresswoman hartzler, thank you for your efforts on the special order. let me -- i don't know that i can add a whole lot to what's been said. but let me tell you about a conversation i had with a liberal who did not believe in a wall, didn't think it worked. he happened to go to the national championship game between clemson and alabama. and i asked him, i said, how was the game? of course he was a clemson fan. i said, did you have tickets? he said, yes. i said, well, let me ask you, did you have any trouble getting in? he said, no. i had tickets. i said, did you go to a point

of entry? yeah, we had a line. i said, well, could you not just walk in? was there a wall? he said, no, there was a fence. i said, ok, a fence. but was there a barrier, whether concrete or steel was, was there a way that you could -- steel, was there a way you could not get in and you had to go into a certain point of entry? he said, yes. i said, well, explain to me what's different with our country. if anybody can walk in that stadium, would they not take our seat, would they not violate what you paid for? and he said, he just kind of locked -- looked at me. i said, do you not see the similarities? he did, but he didn't want to admit it. folks, i am very frustrated with the inaction of congress. i'm appalled that we haven't taken this security for our

great nation seriously. how many kate styleys are going to have to be shot? how many molly tibets are going to have to be raped and killed? how many police officers on the border are going to have to be shot before we say we've got a crisis in this country? i've got a chart behind me that shows what $5 billion is to our total federal budget spending. it's .1%. you tell me, you try to look and see what percentage this is. you really can't see it. so, as has been said, it's not about the money. and i really don't think it's -- i don't think that those who argue against it can really say that they don't work. as my friend who went to the college football game, he knows it works. because he said it did. but now it's time to take action. to hold this president in

contempt like has been done for political reasons, lifting -- having the safety of this country at risk and putting all americans where we shouldn't even have to have to have this debate. i urge congress to take action. i urge congress to put partisan politics behind. let's do right for the country, let's do right for america. i yield back. mr. hartzler: thank you. love that mrs. hartzler: makes this common sense for those of us. thank you for sharing that. i would like to go to someone else on the ag committee and we are from rural america and what

is your thinking. you are from washington state and the importance of securing r border, representative nousefrur washington. -- newhouse-t mr. newhouse: this will make important points. and so tharning you for yielding me some time. i wanted to relay a couple of instances. i had the opportunity to tour the same southern border area president trump toured last week. he was briefed by some of the same officials i was including the acting chief patrol agent, raul ortiz, of the rio grande valley sector. very interesting conversation. chief ortiz said so far in 2019, his sector has apprehended

people from 41 countries around the world. on a single day, chief ortiz's sector apprehended 133 people from countries other than mexico or countries in central america. madam speaker, we absolutely have a crisis at the border. it's a humanitarian crisis. even president obama said as much back in 2014. president trump now is rightly citing the growing numbers of families and unaccompanied minors crossing the border as a crisis. yet he is met with partisan criticism for saying so. the numbers will tell you the truth. just last month, 20,000 migrant children were brought illegally to our country. 20,000. our border facilities are not equipped to handle this influx of families and minor children.

we're being overrun. therefore is results in a humanitarian crisis. securing the border and coming to a solution on immigration reform should not be a partisan fight. but rather we should see this as an opportunity to find common ground that you were talking about. american support -- americans support a deal to secure our border, reform our immigration system, and another point, provide certainty to daca recipients. just this weekend, i pulled my -- i polled my constituents on this very solution and you know what they told me? 69.8% said they support a border security and daca solution compromise deal. president trump has made it clear that he is open to a broader immigration reform deal that includes daca recipients if the border is secured. so i think our time to achieve both is right now.

the fact that we have a crisis at the border must be addressed. congressional democrats must be willing to make a deal with president trump to support broader solutions for our nation. speaker pelosi's flippant comment of willing willing -- of being willing to give only a single dollar for a barrier is a slap in the face to the men and women like chief ortiz who are work selflessly to keep our nation safe. madam speaker, let's reopen the government, secure our border, and reform our broken immigration system. we can do all those things. again, thank you, mrs. hartzler. thank you very much. i yield back. mrs. hartzler: thank you, mr. newhouse. well said. this is so important and we have a moment and the time right now in our history of our country where we've had the government, par o-- par of it shut down for 24 days, yesterday we have like

you said all these individuals coming into our country, some of them from terrorists or gang moshese hurting our citizens and so here's an opportunity to come together, work in a bipartisan fashion, to fix our broken immigration laws, i agree, daca situation needs to be taken care of. and we need more ag workers. we need to expand our visas. we need to expand in several areas. we need to streamline the process, you know, right now there's 00,000 individuals in the process of trying to come here legally? into our country. i don't know if you have worked with some individuals, i know in my own district , my office and i are helping some individuals who are trying to get their family members here legally. and it's been very interesting to see the paperwork that they have to go through and the amount of work, the paperwork i have seen been even this high of the documentation they have to

submit and then they have money that they pay along the way and then there's such a large time frame, some have waited over a year, two years, to go -- or more. that's right. to go through this process legally. but it's worth it because they want to live the american dream and i applaud them. but we need to streamline it and help those individuals who are going through the process to get here, make it easier. the ones that want to be upright citizens and contribute. but the problem is, it is not fair for those 600,000 individuals who are trying to come here and were waiting in line to just have somebody go across the border and not follow our law, disregard our laws. it's just not right. that we build this wall, that we come together in a bipartisan fashion to find a solution to this, that we find $5. billion,

which is hardly anything, you saw the chart earlier from representative norman about small piece a sliver, of our entire budget that would be, surely all these lives of individuals and our families, securities and safety is worth finding that sliver amount of money. we pay over $50 billion every year in foreign aid. and we want $5.7 billion for a wall. $50 billion we send to other countries, many times for them to secure their border, and yet we can't find $5.7 billion or ke we can't get support for that from the other side of the aisle? so we can secure our own border? that's that doesn't make sense. we can do better. so i appreciate all my colleagues who have come down tonight to have this conversation with you all on

this topic. and to talk about how it can come about for us to come together to find this solution, reopen government and to make sure that we have a secure border for our nation to stop the flow of drugs and to keep our country safe so thank you, madam speaker, appreciate the opportunity and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the entlewoman seek recognition? mrs. hartzler: to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to jdjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow for m

morning, tuesday pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry discusses the government shutdown and border security. former customs and border protection commissioner gill talks about illegal immigration and border security issues. npr justice correspondent carrie

johnson will be with us to talk about the opening day of testimony for william barr, president trump's nominee for attorney general. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal like at seven eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. tonight, james kim to the floor to discuss a disapproval resolution he is bringing against iowa representative steve king. in a recent article, congressman king questioned how the terms white nationalists and what supremacist have become offensive. he was followed by comments from ohio democratic congressman tim ryan who then brought a resolution of censorship against congressman king. here is that now. and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today to talk about what i call the tale of two kings, one a member of this body

who wondered out loud to the "new york times" why the terms white nationalism and white supremacy are offensive. i would say to my colleague that the terms are offensive because the concepts are evil. nd we have been counseled by edmund burke that all that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. i have just introduced a resolution to express this august body's disapproval of mr. king's comments and to express disapproval of white supremacy and white nationalism in all its forms. today i renounce the words of steve king and i do so invoking the words of another king, dr. martin luther king jr. who if he had been allowed to live, would be celebrating his 90th birthday tomorrow. dr. king counseled, we are going to be made to repent not just

for the hateful words and deeds of bad people but for the appalling silence of good people. i call on my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in breaking the deafening silence and letting our r for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> i rise for a privileged resolution, madam speaker, pursuant to clause 2-a-1 of rule 9 i seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privilege os they have house in the form of house resolution 40. resolution condemning andsen suring representative steve king of iowa. whereas on january 10, 2019, in an interview published by "the new york times," representative steve king asked, quote, white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization, how did that language become offensive? why did i sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization, end quote.

whereas representative king's comments legitimized white supremacy and white nationalism as acceptable in today's society, whereas retchtive king's comments are abhorrent to the founding principles of our nation and our rich history of diversity and tolerance. -- tolerance of those whose backgrounds and beliefs have made america the envy of the world, and whereas representative king's comments reflect negatively on the house of representatives, now, therefore, be it resolved that representative steve king of iowa besen sured. representative steve king forthwith present himself in the twhofle house of representatives for the pronouncement ofsen sure and three, representative steve king withsen sured with the public reading of this resolution by the speaker. the speaker pro tempore: under rule 9, a resolution offered from the floor by a member other than the majority leader or the minority leader as a question of the privileges of the house has

immediate precedence only at a time designated by the chair within two legislative days after the resolution is properly noticed. pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed by the gentleman from ohio will appear in the record at this point. the chair will not at this point determine whether the resolution institutes a question of privilege. that determination will be made at the time designated for consideration of the resolution. >> today, we continue to bring

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