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important civic thing we do, a good people need to step up and take care of it. d i've got a lot of confid in our team. we've got good people and integrity, the way we do it in arkansas on election day. i don't know much about how they do it absene,ut on election day, you show up and we check your name and address and recheck voter role toee, and we look at your id and say the person who showed up in the id -- and then we hand you your ballot that has your precinct marked on it, and you take it to the valley marking machine. it sticks it in and the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house
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a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. october 18, 2024. i hereby appoints the honorable key self to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. grants your grace, o god, this day, and relieve us of the burdens we bear. the weight of concern for our country, the load of worry we carry for our world. and even as we pray these words our consciences are overwhelmed by the weight of the reports of devastation in north carolina, georgia, florida just to name a few. only you can open the way and provide a means for restoration and healing in those regions. empower and inspire us to bear our responsibility to carry the
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burdens of those who suffer from these tragedies. may we serve as your hands and feet and give what we must and go where you send us to care for your people. may we serve as agents of your deliverance and reassure h.r. sure presence in support is of the efforts of aid workers and caregivers tending to this dire situation. disspell the fear and anxiety that gets in the way of your provision, that we and all who are in need would receive the bounty of your sure and steadfast loving kindness. in the hope found in your name do we pray. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will lead the house -- pursuant to section 3-z of house resolution 5, the journal of the last day's proceedings is approved. the house -- the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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pursuant to section 3-z of house resolution 5, the house stands adjourned until 11 a.m. on tuesday, october 22, >> live coverage here on c-span. here is a look at our live campaign 2024 coverage. both presidential candidates are campaigning in michigan today. at 2:30 p.m. eastern, democratic presidential nominee vice president kamala harris speaks at a rally in an rapids. then republican nominee former president donald trump holds a roundtable discussion with voters in auburn hills. later, democratic senator tammy
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shares his book "rationality" which looks at the role it plays in a functioning society and the growth of irrationality in the united states. >> my call attitude when it comes to questions about the origin of things, we should look to science, we should look to respected experts, that is alien to the brain. >> john mackey and steven pinker, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." you can listen to "q&a" in all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. >> defense secretary lloyd austin called the death of hamas leader yahya sinwar an opportunity for a cease-fire between israel and hamas. the secretary made the remarks during a news conference at nato headquarters in russells following meeting with his far nato cannot parts. he also addresses questions on the russia-ukraine more. -- war.
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sec. austin: good afternoon, everyone. it is good to be back at nato. i want to start with a few words about the middle east. as you all know, israel yesterday killed sinwar, the leader of hamas. that's a major achievement, and it opens a major opportunity for progress. sinwar was the architect of the october 17 harvest assault on israel -- october 7 terrorist assault on israel. his plot left 1200 people dead, including civilians from more than 30 other countries. and that includes the united states. he was responsible for the deaths of many americans over the years, including more than 40 americans murdered on october 7 and four murdered american hostages. sinwar devoted his life to wrecking the chances of peace
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between israelis and the palestinians. he's finally been brought to justice. and that removes a huge obstacle. our top priority is the 101 hostages still kidnapped in gaza, including our own american hostages. they have been through hell. and so have their families. a the hostagens should not have to suffer one more hour and connectivity --one more hour in captivity. those who are holding hostages should release them immediately. sinwar's death also provides an extraordinary opportunity to achieve a lasting cease-fire to end this awful war and two rushing humanitarian aid into gaza. our forces in the region stand
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ready choices to in israel -- stand ready to assist in israel's defense, to deter aggression, and to reduce the risk of all-out war. and we will continue to drive harder to bring all of the hostages home and to end the conflicts in both gaza and lebanon for principles of diplomacy -- principled diplomacy. now let me turn back to our work at nato. this has been an historic defense ministerial for three reasons. first, this is our new secretary-general's inaugural ministerial meeting, so i want to thank mark rutte and his staff for convening us. i also look forward to working very closely with mark and his team. second, this is our first defense ministerial with nato's indo pacific partners, australia, japan, new zealand,
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and the republic of korea. and that just underscores the importance of working with our partners in the indo pacific on boosting industrial-based resilience, combating disinformation, and much, much more. and third, this ministerial is the first high-level nato gathering since the 71st-anniversary summit in washington back in july. the summit was a major success. we welcome to sweden --we welcomed sweden as a nato ally. we endorsed a nato industrial expansion capacity pledge, and that will strengthen the defense industrial base on both sides of the atlantic, increase large-scale multinational procurement, and help deliver capabilities swiftly and securely. we also launched the nato security assistance and training for ukraine, or nsatu.
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that is the plan to coordinate and arrange delivery of the security assistance that ukraine needs to prevail against russian aggression. we strengthened nato's deterrence and defense. we depended ties with our global partners, especially in the indo pacific. and we celebrated 75 years of the strongest, most successful defensive alliance in history. i'm proud of all this progress, but we still got work to do. our priority is implementing the important agreements from nato's recent summits, and today we continued our progress. we are forging nato's most robust defense plans since the end of the cold war, and that will help ensure that we have the forces and capabilities to meet any contingency.
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that includes air and missile defense, which are crucial for defending the allied airspace, and earlier this month the general directed a reinforcement of nato air surveillance in rumania to monitor -- in romania to monitor russian military activity. nato allies continue to make robust investments in air and missile defense, but we must invest in many other areas to meet our requirements. i'm glad to say that we are sharing the burden of collective defense more than ever. this year a record 23 nato allies are hitting or copping our shared commitment to spend at least 2% of gdp on defense. but we still need each and every single ally to meet this mutually agreed-upon obligation as soon as possible. and that will lead us to fulfill the requirements of our new plans and hit our capability
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targets. by investing in our transatlantic defense industrial base and scaling up military production, we can send a long-term demand signal to industry. you know, i also met yesterday with our indo pacific partners and with the european union. it was a very productive meeting, and it underscored the profound links among your-atlanta -- euro-atlantic security and indo pacific security we are concerned by the prc's increasingly coercive behavior in the indo pacific, which has profound implications for the whole world. we are also troubled by the growing alignment between russia and the people's republic of china, including the prc's support for putin's indefensible war of choice against ukraine. and that makes our close cooperation with our indo pacific friends more vital than ever. we also held a nato-ukraine
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council meeting yesterday. the minister gave us some great insights, and we made clear our enduring commitment to a free and sovereign ukraine. like countries of goodwill around the world, our nato allies continue to stand up for ukraine's sovereignty and self-defense. the united states and our allies and partners are determined to stand by ukraine for the long haul. and we will standby one another. the foundation of nato is a collective defense commitment in article five of the north atlantic treaty. the u.s. commitment to article v remains ironclad, and we will defend the sovereignty in the territory of every member of this alliance. whatever changes lie ahead, we will tackle them together. and that solidarity is the reason why nato is the greatest
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defensive alliance in history. and thanks again, and with that i will be glad to take some questions. >> our first question will go to reuters. right here in the middle. your fine.-- no, you're fine. reporter: thank you. so you are saying that israel has an opportunity to end the war in gaza, but israel's prime minister is vowing today to keep fighting. do you support israel's new campaign to "stop the axi of evil," as netanyahu put it, or is israel missing an opportunity? on ukraine, president zelenskyy told the "financial times" that a formal invitation to join it or the only way ukraine can survive russia's invasion. do you agree with the assessment, and more broadly do you endorse his victory plan? sec. austin: which one of those
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questions do you want me to answer, phil? all right, let's start with the question as to whether or not there is an opportunity available with respect to gaza. of course there is. and we would hope that we can work together to take advantage of that opportunity. the first thing, phil, that we need to focus on is the return of the hostages. again, you heard prime minister publicly state yesterday that anyone who has control of hostages, he would encourage them to return them. and again, i would hope that they would do so. beyond that, i think there are other opportunities, and we will see how things evolve. clearly there are opportunities for a change of direction, and we would hope that parties would take advantage of that.
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both in lebanon -- in gaza and in lebanon. the second question was, as i recall, about the victory plan and whether or not we endorse the victory plan. again, the victory plan is president zelenskyy's plan, and we are going to do everything we can to provide security assistance to support the president as he tries to accomplish his objectives. what we all want to to make sure we continue to do is to link military objectives to strategic objectives. that dialogue continues. i just met with the minister today. we talked through a number of those things. our focus is going to continue to be undoing everything that we can to support the victory plan -- on doing everything that we can't is what the victory plan, support president zelenskyy. it's not my position to evaluate
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publicly his plan. we have been supporting him by providing security assistance in a major way for over two and a half years. we are going to continue to do that. >> thank you. our second question, right here in the back in the middle. reporter: thank you. mr. secretary, ukrainian military has been able to carry out effective uav strikes deep into russian territory, but there have been reports in russian and ukrainian-language media that the u.s. will discourage those attacks. is there any substance to those reports, and if so, is the u.s. willing to support such operations in the future? sec. austin: actually, andre, we have seen ukrainians use their long-range uav strike capability to great effect. we saw recently that they were able to take out a number of strategic-level ammunition
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supply points, which has had an impact on the battlefield. i think what's important to point out, andre, is that they are able to produce these uav's in ukraine, they are able to scale that production rapidly. the uav's have proven to be very effective and accurate. and again, when you consider the fact that one precision-guided missile costs in some cases close to a million dollars, depending on what it is, these uav's they can produce in great numbers at a fraction of the cost. when you look at the balance sheet and the effects that are being created on the battlefield, i think this is a great capability. how they use a capability that they are producing is going to be there call-- their call. >> our next question, "air and
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space magazine." i'm sorry, chris gordon. i said phil. sec. austin: you are phil now. [laughter] i'm kidding, i know you are chris. reporter: good to hear. the world is in a difficult situation and i have two questions regarding that situation. first if there is a settlement in gaza, is the pentagon prepared to provide logistical support and military advice to a stabilization course if there are no u.s. boots on the ground? and then secondly, to put a finer point on my colleague's question earlier, president zelenskyy has repeatedly appealed to the u.s. to strike a broader range of targets within russia and to do so more quickly than drones. the biden administration is not allowed to this. have putin's nuclear threats worked? sec. austin: regarding putin's nuclear threats, again, you have
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heard me say a number of times that i think any kind of nuclear saber rattling is reckless and dangerous. and we would call upon putin and others to not employ that kind of language. in terms of whether or not we would participate in any kind of stabilization efforts in gaza, i think that that is going to require the contributions of a number of countries, hopefully countries in the region will step up. there quite possibly can be a part for the united states to play in that as well. what part that would be and what that would look like, chris, we are going after work with our allies and partners to scope that out. and i certainly would not have any announcements to make on anything like that. the first step, though, is we
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have got to get to some sort of cease fire, and then we need to make sure that we have -- that we are putting the right things in place to stabilize the area and provide for some sort of security going forward. but that's left to be defined. >> our last question will go to deutsche welle. reporter: thank you, secretary austin. i'm very interested in the future of the ukraine contact group, a group your yourself created. what is the future of this given that nobody knows what is going to have been-- happen after november under either administration that would take over? what is going to happen with this group? how do you consolidate what you have done and what has been done under your leadership, but more of interested ukrainians, -- interest to the ukrainians, do you have a sense after this last meeting that there is enough momentum to provide enough to
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help ukraine tilt the balance on the battlefield as is necessary, you yourself say, to some day move into discussions about ending the war? sec. austin: yeah, thanks, terry. we have been doing two things simultaneously. we are focused on providing ukraine what it needs to be successful on the battlefield today as it tries to defend its sovereign territory, and it's been very successful at that and i would remind everybody that ukraine has taken on the largest military in europe and for two and a half years it has successfully defended its territory. and putin has not achieved not one strategic objective that he has set out to achieve. kyiv is still stands -- still stands. the ukrainian government did not fold. and i couldn't name a number of other things. but they have-- i could name a number of other things, but they have been very successful.
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helping them in the current fight is one objective. the other objective is making sure that we help them get what's necessary to be able to defend against aggression in the future and deter aggression as well. that is what the capability coalitions have been designed to do. as you know, we have an air force capability coalition. it was focused initially and still is focused on helping ukraine get a fighter aircraft capability. as you know, ukraine now has f-16 cabability. we will continue to build upon that. there is an artillery capability coalition that is also very successful, and it is helping ukraine acquire the artillery systems and munitions it means not only for today, but for the long haul as well good there is an i.t. coalition that helps make sure that ukraine has what it needs to be able to function
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in the information space, information domain, and be effective. that i.t. coalition has been very impressive. there is a drone coalition. these coalitions are designed to ensure that at the end of the day, ukraine has what it needs to deter aggression and defend itself going forward. thank you for bringing it up, because it's a thing that not many people pay attention to. but every day, we are building long-term capability for ukraine . to applaud the work of our allies and partners who are leading some of these coalitions and rallying support for ukraine and digging deep to provide them what we think they will need going forward. so i think that will help dispel success for you -- i think that will help spell success for ukraine going forward. >> thank you, everyone.
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that concludes today's press conference. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] >> today on c-span, the presidential candidates a i the campaign trail in the battleground state of michigan. at:30 p.m. eastern, we will be live with the democratic nominee kamala harris as she rallies supporters in grand rapids. after that, republican nominee donald trump will host a rodtable discussion with voters in auburn hills, live at 5:00 p.m. you can also watch our campaign coverage on c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> today, watch c-span's 2024 campaign trail, a weekly discussion on how the presidential, senate, and house campaigns have progressed in the past week. two reporters talk about the
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issues,, messages and events driving the political news and to take a look at the week ahead. watch "2024 campaign trail" at 7:30 p.m. on c-span, online at c-span.org, or download as a podcast on c-span now, wherever you get your podcasts. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. tonigh incumbent senator tammy baldwin faces off against her republican challenr,ric hovde, in the race forhe wisconsin senate seat. watch the date hosted by the wisconsin broadcasters association live at 8: p. eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. and now, rerk from 2024 republican presidential nominee donaldru at the alfred e smith memorial foundation dinner. the white tie gala benefiting charities of the roman catholic
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archdiocese of new york. it is typically attended by presidential candidates from both parties in an election year. this time democratic nominee kamala harris was not in attendance. [applause] mr. trump: thank you, everybody. thank you very much. it's an honor. they tell me under no circumstances are you allowed to use the teleprompter, and i get up here and i say this is a beautiful teleprompter. so here i am. but it is a tremendous thing, a tremendous dinner. i've come here with my father, three times, but also many times before that, a long time ago.
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and it's a very special dinner. cardinal, thank you very much, i appreciate it. [applause] so i would like to thank your eminence very much and members of the clergy. so many people i know. speaker of the house johnson. what a job you're doing. [applause] he has done a great job. senator schumer, i supported and -- everybody's, oh, i don't know -- he used to say that's true. i gave him his first check from an office in beach haven, and i was very proud of it. i don't know about lately. [laughter] no, it was his first check. he was running and i said he is a good man. senator gillibrand, thank you very much. thank you very much for working hard. [applause] governor hochul, wherever you may be, this is a big day as
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well. where is the governor? good job. not an easy one, is it? what you are doing all right. have to get a little money from the federal government, i have to tell you. it's about time. mayor adams, good luck with everything. [laughter] they went after you, mayor. oh boy, i knew that -- nine and a half months ago i said he said something bad about the administration, he's going to be indicted any moment. [laughter] guess what happened? i think you're going to win. so good luck, good luck. i don't like what they do. i don't like what they do. and also distinguished guests, so many friends up here. a lot of great friends, some of my best friends. and you are right, and they are distinguished and they are wealthy. a couple are having a hard time,
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but they are going to get over it. [laughter] i also want to thank my very beautiful wife, and thank you for mentioning -- can you believe this, she did a book? it's a really good book and she worked hard on it, and it just became number one on the "new york times" list. [applause] that's not an easy thing to do, especially when your name is trump and you are on the "new york times" list. it must be selling like hot a true pleasure to be with you, and amazing pleasure. really a pleasure anywhere in new york without a subpoena for my appearance. anytime i don't get a subpoena i am very happy. [laughter] they have gone after me, mr. mayor, you are peanuts compared w
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