i call arley. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i am deeply honored and humbled to be speaking in this chamber today. it is in this house where william from yorkshire argue time in time for the abolition of slavery. we must never underestimate the words being spoken in this house at the heart of the british democracy. today is a changing and challenging world. there has never been a bigger need for a better moccasin. change does not just happen from westminster, but from our communities across the country. a democracy where people are not disengage or misinformed, but intead taking an active part a national conversation. represented by a gender balanced parliament with members from all backgrounds and walks of life, truly reflecting the british society. having a people powered democracy. this is a vision for today and the right way forward. let us turn that vision into reality. let us be the voice of hope in the silence of fear. thank you. [applause] >> well, yet another succint, but very powerful speech. that has captured the mood

for voters, engaging arley. checking their voter -- engaging arley. checking their voter registration. i would hate to miss an opportunity to give a plug for being a poll worker. it is a great experience. that maybe once a little more confidence in the process, actually being a part of it, see all of the checks and double checks that go into it. see all of the pieces that go into making election day great. been one of the more valuable experiences i have had. it is a long day. but it is worthwhile. matthew: i will warn everybody. until i am minutes going to turn to your questions. for those five minutes you will be thing about your questions, i want ask two questions to you. you are both coming to this from different perspectives. you are an elected official. you have been here for 20 years as a lawyer. what are the positive stories that are not being told the voters do not understand? the flipside of that, going into 2020, what isto keeping you up at night? secretary raffensperger: many people do not realize we have a great story to tell. we are one

i served on the front lines of the effort to train, advise, and equip the afghan arley. -- army. i'm a navy reserve logistics officer and i served in a foreign military sales role. never did i think at that time or every day since that everything i was a part of would fall -- all of the equipment we acquired to give the afghan army and the afghan police to fight against the taliban, all of that equipment would be left behind and fall into the hands of the taliban. over $85 billion worth of american-made military quitman that includes 75,000 vehicles. 208 airplanes and helicopters. over 600,000 small arms and light weapons left behind to fall into the hands of the taliban. the taliban now has more blackhawk helicopters and 85% of the countries in the world because of the negligence of this administration. folks, it is not just weapons. it is night vision goggles, body armor, and unbelievably, the taliban has the biometric data stored on biometric devices that we behind that has the information, the personal identification information of the afghans who served alongside us as inter

unfair.very one of the exle pells is arley davidson them they are treated unfarley. you know the countries i am talking about so we going are going to be doing very much reciprocal tax and you will be hearing about that during the week and the coming months. but not fair. with when when we are take advantage of. that is why we have the big tremendousits and problems with trade where as you know, renegotiating and a half now. we're going to renegotiate it or terminate. it.re renegotiating bob is doing a fantastic job on that. hopefully the renegotiation will be successful. and if it is not, we'll be more successful. nafta has been -- we also a tremendous amount of money $71 million with mexico. we also a lot of in think about canada. treat us right in tomorrows of farming and borders.the board they will treat us rig or we have to do different business. to be takenntinue advantage of by other country this we cannot continue to let people come into our country and rob us blind and charge us tremendous tariffs in taxes and we charge them nothing. happen.t allow that to w

speaker, i rise today in remembrance of arley mcneil who passed away on august 16, 2023 surrounded by his family after battling cancer. he was born in sea grove, north carolina. in 1936. he joined the u.s. knave in 1955 where he became a dental assistant and realized wasn'ted to be a mortician. in 1961 he married his wife. the following year he graduated from john a. gumpton college mortuary school in national,towntown. he returned to brunswick and started working at a funeral home where he served for over 50 years and became part owner with johnny wilson. he was a well-known auctioneer. a 50-year mason at lodge 214. in 1977 became an ordained deacon at the baptist church. he also served in georgia state board of funeral services from 1998 to 2004. and was the area manager for the funeral group for five years and a devout c he will be remembered by all -- devout christian. he will be remember bide his community whom he served well. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the life of mr. george scarpalousis, an american hero and father to three children. graduating from basic training in ge

york, arley, new republican. good morning. caller: good morning. would like to say our lives matter. i think it is funny the way they cover it. the marketing slaughtered in chicago. you do not see black lives .atter there statistics show 70% of african-americans are born without a father in the home. -- percent of industry crimes are caused by blacks between 18 and 31. there are problems in the police force, but why don't we discussed the other issues that come up that way geico that is just my comment. host: how do you think we are doing on race relations in this country? are they getting better, are they getting worse? caller: they are getting worse because they are fanned bytes tv stations, msnbc, when you have a small group of people, black-and-white, that go out and protest and destroy things that no matter what -- i think they are using this as a cover. host: peter in new york. a few comments from our text messaging service. this is marion in texas, saying the biggest story in the week into texas is the rise of the coronavirus again. we have

the members of this impressive troop are, roxanne, kirsten, arley, cecilia, aubrey, kylie, brooklyn, d'alenea, lily, eorgia, allison, kaylee, and illabell. during women's history month, let us pay tribute to the next women leaders, like daisy troop 1944. mr. speaker, please join me in recognizing the works of the 1.9 million girl members of girl scouts as well as individuals who volunteer to help them as troop leaders. their parents and the girl scout's c.e.o. anna maria chavez. all who strive to make the world a much better world. daisy troop, u, job well done. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> madam speaker, in honor of women's history month, i rise to celebrate an inspiring woman who now has a permanent spot in minnesota's history books. mr. emmer: sandra became the first brigadier general. general best was a 20-year-old college s

arley goes by that i don't mention the chesapeake bay would to thank my colleagues for their support we've increased authorization for the chesapeake bay program of the resources in the chesapeake bay program or under senator stabenow's leadership we've gotten help under department of agriculture pruitt who got help from other of our programs. there is a committee that you'd youchairs not been reconstituted recently. which is coordinates the federal agencies. the federal leadership committee. i understand and conversations with senator ben holland we have both expressed to you the advisability of reconstituting that committee with your leadership as chair. considering we are reaching 2025 which is the next plateau on the commitments made by the states for what they can do and reducing the challenges in the bay enforced by tmv ills. so, can you just assure us that will beat reconstituted or reinstated to coordinate the work of the various federal agencies? >> absolutely. thank you for your leadership on getting historic investments to the chesapeake bay. we have been digesting all the

arley is next in mustang, oklahoma.aller: i think you guys do a great job of letting people give opinions and that is all this is, an opinion. but the oil and gas issues are basically driven by the oil companies and that the government. i live in a state that is drilling like crazy. the reason why i do not know what is going to happen is because we need to get together and work together like we used to. that is all i have. host: let's look at what nancy pelosi said. she is the speaker of the house. she said, june's robust jobs report shows after creating 9 million jobs in 17 months america is continuing its steady job growth. today our nation has reached an important milestone. under the leadership of president biden and our democratic majority, we have recovered the total number of private sector jobs lost the beginning of the pandemic. let's talk to pam who is optimistic in gardner, maine. caller: good morning. i am optimistic because we are always developing new technology and a lot of people are just scared of new t

arley is next in mustang, oklahoma.aller: i think you guys do a great job of letting people give opinions and that is all this is, an opinion. but the oil and gas issues are basically driven by the oil companies and that the government. i live in a state that is drilling like crazy. the reason why i do not know what is going to happen is because we need to get together and work together like we used to. that is all i have. host: let's look at what nancy pelosi said. she is the speaker of the house. she said, june's robust jobs report shows after creating 9 million jobs in 17 months america is continuing its steady job growth. today our nation has reached an important milestone. under the leadership of president biden and our democratic majority, we have recovered the total number of private sector jobs lost the beginning of the pandemic. let's talk to pam who is optimistic in gardner, maine. caller: good morning. i am optimistic because we are always developing new technology and a lot of people are just scared of new t

we have 62 arley burkes and we can bill the other 10 between now and 2016. we will finished the newbdg 10000's we will have 90 of these big boys. the lcs is coming down the cost curve like you cannot believe. we will get to a 300 shares by 2019 no matter what. what happens over long run? people ask me how i sleep. i sleep like a baby. i wake up every two hours. i cannot say what will happen very the only thing i can say is we are prioritizing and started to break away from the /.3 split. if we take more cuts, i would expect more prioritization to occur and the department of the navy of the deal to build on its 300-ship navy. i could be totally dream. what would we die? we are buying the right stuff. we've got the best cruiser and destroyer in the world that will be better once we get to the advance missile radar. the lcs is unlike anything floating out there and i'm convinced it will be something. the va is bestssn in the world hands down. like the walzg class, l.a. steve: more allied a ours. every single one of the new ships is the best in the world. i woul

we were told to truncate the l.c.s., the first thing we would do obviously is to continue buildings arley burke line until we could under exactly what we wanted to do. the national cutter, when i wrote that, as eric labs said, i was writing it as if you could afford it, you could do it as a presence sheet or what i called a national fleet station ship. but we can't afford that type of nish capability in the navy. the national security cutter is not the ship. it can't operate the mission modules of an l.c.s., and it would be good for sailing around. but the l.c.s. is very good for sailingthe national security cus not a viable option. there is the frigates that we could build up. let's assume you could build a good frigate for $750 million. all the costs overseas, they do not put in the robustness in a combat ship as we do. it would take several years to design, several years to build. if we were told to stop the lcs now, it would be disastrous for the u.s. navy. make no bones about it. the size of the fleet would surely shrink drastically. we do not see anything on the market better than w