kind, ms. moore, mr. duffy, mr. pocan, mr. grothman, mr. gallagher. the committee will retire from the chamber to escort the speaker-little bit to the chair -- the speaker-elect to the chair. >> madam clerk, the speaker-elect, paul d. ryan, from the state of wisconsin.

degette: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from wisconsin, ms. moore. ms. moore: thank you, madam speaker. i want to answer his question with a question. do you care about the four million children today that live off of less than $2 a day and live in extreme poverty? no, you don't. let me quote our founding father, samuel adams. freedom of thought and the rights of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their happy course to this happy country. the first amendment, fourth amendment, 14th amendment all sort of convene to this notion of rightses of privacy in this country. except when it comes to women and their body. republicans continue to wreak havoc on women's health, operating as if they have some sort of moral imperative to tell us. get your laws off our body. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to please address their remarks to the chair. the gentlewoman from tennessee is recognized. mrs. black: thank you, madam chair. it is my pleasure to yield one minute to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks who has been a l

kind, ms. moore, mr. duffy, mr. pocan, mr. grothman, mr. gallagher. the committee will retire from the chamber to escort the speaker-little bit to the chair -- the speaker-elect to the chair. >> madam clerk, the speaker-elect, paul d. ryan, from the state of wisconsin. ms. pelosi: it is my honor to join speaker ryan in welcoming all of you to the 115th congress. to new members and your families in this special moment, i offer a special greeting and special congratulations. each of us comes here sustained by the love of our own family and the trust of our constituents. i am grateful to my husband, paul, our five children, nine grandchildren, and my family, especially our patriarch, my brother. and to the people of san francisco, thank you once again for the privilege of representing our beautiful and diverse city. in a brief span of days we will inaugurate a new president, donald trump. and a new vice president, our ormer colleague, mike pence. at that noon hour we will enact the peaceful transfer of power that is the bedrock of our republic. for eight

ms. again moore from wisconsin. -- ms. gwen moore from wisconsin. mr. moore: thank you so much, mr. -- ms. moore: thank you so much, mr. veasey. i want to thank the new chair of the congressional black caucus for his tremendous effort in putting this very important special order hour together. i rise this evening because i'm extremely concerned about the nomination of senator jeff sessions. certainly president-elect trump as a right to nominate people and have them be presented before our senate. certainly you don't expect a republican to necessarily agree with all of your positions. but i'm concerned about senator sessions because i think he's aligned himself with extreme identify willing -- ideological views that won't best serve all of the people of the united states. during the last seven years, the department of justice has investigated at least 23 law enforcement agencies in response to rampant civil rights abuses. and i fear that under an attorney general, jeff sessions, that those consent decrease -- decrees and that very important work in resol

indeed, democrats like ms. moore and republicans like mr. stivers carefully negotiated a way to balance the needs of operating companies like airlines and refineries. this amendment, however, would exempt swaps between affiliates, including megabanks like goldman sachs and j.p. morgan from the mandatory margin. clearing trade execution capital and every other protection under title 7 of the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act of 2010. while we generally agree that swaps between affiliate corporate entities do not pose a systemic threat, we're deeply troubled about this desire to undermine all swaps rules and harm our economy. during testimony on a similar version of this amendment, the cftc's former chairman, stated that such an exemption would provide a big loophole around our derivatives rules that it would, and i quote, blow a hole in dodd-frank, end quote. specifically the amendment exempts affiliate swaps no matter where the affiliates reside. so an affiliate could reside in a foreign jurisdiction that lacks any sw

ms. moore: i thank the gentleman from from fort worth and the gentlelady from the virgin islands for yielding this time to me. i can just tell you that, you know, it's the deja vu all over again. when president george w. bush lost the election in 2000, he engaged in a lengthy investigation over so-called voter fraud to deflect from the fact that he, in fact, lost the popular vote, as did president donald trump. and these allegations of voter fraud do nothing but to continue to bankrupt the treasury. when as the gentleman from new jersey just pointed out, loyola law school did a study and found 31 cases of voter impersonation out of one billion votes cast. we don't have enough time to do the math on that. but i can tell you that what we -- what real voter fraud is is voter suppression. the 2016 was the very first presidential election in 50 years, the gentlelady from the virgin islands, that we didn't have the full protection of voter rights in 14 states and it showed, including in my own swing

ms and he's really swallowing dope. >> it gets smaller every year, which shows we're doing a really good job over here. >> most of the drugs getting into corcoran arrive through visitation. but for inmates like de moore hill conjugal visits are what keep him out of trouble in the first place. >> my wife come on fridays, you got to be 90 days clean. i would lose my friday visits and i would have to wait another six months clean to get another family visit and depending on the circumstances, dealing with drugs, a sticking or something like that, you can go a year or two without a family visit. so a lot i can lose. i would never want to lose my wife and kids in here over some nonsense. i try to do everything i can in a positive way to stay out of the way. >> today, hill's good behavior has earned him another conjugal visit with his wife. >> i go spend time with my wife for a couple days. it's hard to get that privilege, be a lot of stuff going on. fights every day or something. if i have family visits i wouldn't be as careful as i am today. it feels like you're free for a couple days. when you're sitting in that two-bedroom apartment, it's like you're at your own house. just can't go outside, like a jun

moore case. i will speak about the body cam video at the next opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. did ms. fleischmann and mr.-percent credentials? at the press conference? i'm asking the chief. i'm sorry. >> i don't know. again i will take a look and see. >> okay. >> i presented my credentials i don't have an idea with huffington post but i showed them that i'm listed on the huffington post website as a huffington post blogger and presented my identification. is this the appropriate time to comment on sean moore or- >> no. but you can do that on general public comments. >> okay. >> no. i'm sorry we did talk about that officer involved shooting. pardon me. go right ahead. >> so commissioners, i was very upset to see that none of you were present at the community meeting other than you, director hicks. yes, you are not a commissioner because the story that was presented by sfpd is contradicted by the body cam video that we watch today. and the entire situation up mr. moore points to the need for crisis intervention team, data improvements, time and distance , use of force, everything that w

moore case. i will speak about the body cam video at the next opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. did ms. fleischmann and mr.-percent credentials? at the press conference? i'm asking the chief. i'm sorry. >> i don't know. again i will take a look and see. >> okay. >> i presented my credentials i don't have an idea with huffington post but i showed them that i'm listed on the huffington post website as a huffington post blogger and presented my identification. is this the appropriate time to comment on sean moore or- >> no. but you can do that on general public comments. >> okay. >> no. i'm sorry we did talk about that officer involved shooting. pardon me. go right ahead. >> so commissioners, i was very upset to see that none of you were present at the community meeting other than you, director hicks. yes, you are not a commissioner because the story that was presented by sfpd is contradicted by the body cam video that we watch today. and the entire situation up mr. moore points to the need for crisis intervention team, data improvements, time and distance , use of force, everything that w

moore case. i will speak about the body cam video at the next opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. did ms. fleischmann and mr.-percent credentials? at the press conference? i'm asking the chief. i'm sorry. >> i don't know. again i will take a look and see. >> okay. >> i presented my credentials i don't have an idea with huffington post but i showed them that i'm listed on the huffington post website as a huffington post blogger and presented my identification. is this the appropriate time to comment on sean moore or- >> no. but you can do that on general public comments. >> okay. >> no. i'm sorry we did talk about that officer involved shooting. pardon me. go right ahead. >> so commissioners, i was very upset to see that none of you were present at the community meeting other than you, director hicks. yes, you are not a commissioner because the story that was presented by sfpd is contradicted by the body cam video that we watch today. and the entire situation up mr. moore points to the need for crisis intervention team, data improvements, time and distance , use of force, everything that w

moore case. i will speak about the body cam video at the next opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. did ms. fleischmann and mr.-percent credentials? at the press conference? i'm asking the chief. i'm sorry. >> i don't know. again i will take a look and see. >> okay. >> i presented my credentials i don't have an idea with huffington post but i showed them that i'm listed on the huffington post website as a huffington post blogger and presented my identification. is this the appropriate time to comment on sean moore or- >> no. but you can do that on general public comments. >> okay. >> no. i'm sorry we did talk about that officer involved shooting. pardon me. go right ahead. >> so commissioners, i was very upset to see that none of you were present at the community meeting other than you, director hicks. yes, you are not a commissioner because the story that was presented by sfpd is contradicted by the body cam video that we watch today. and the entire situation up mr. moore points to the need for crisis intervention team, data improvements, time and distance , use of force, everything that w

moore case. i will speak about the body cam video at the next opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. did ms. fleischmann and mr.-percent credentials? at the press conference? i'm asking the chief. i'm sorry. >> i don't know. again i will take a look and see. >> okay. >> i presented my credentials i don't have an idea with huffington post but i showed them that i'm listed on the huffington post website as a huffington post blogger and presented my identification. is this the appropriate time to comment on sean moore or- >> no. but you can do that on general public comments. >> okay. >> no. i'm sorry we did talk about that officer involved shooting. pardon me. go right ahead. >> so commissioners, i was very upset to see that none of you were present at the community meeting other than you, director hicks. yes, you are not a commissioner because the story that was presented by sfpd is contradicted by the body cam video that we watch today. and the entire situation up mr. moore points to the need for crisis intervention team, data improvements, time and distance , use of force, everything that w

ms. moore: i want to thank the congresswoman from the virgin islands and her counterpart, mr. veasey from texas, for really supporting this congressional lack caucus hour so we can discuss the proposals that president trump has made to as the new deal within the black community. i guess, mr. speaker and madam chairwoman, i guess i would like to engage in kind of a colloquy th my good friend from pennsylvania, mr. eff advance, who has been -- evans, who has been a state propertyor before he joined this body for some 25 years. i hate to date him. but he has been a member of the prestigious appropriations committee. and therefore, he was tasked with taking federal funds and making those decisions at the state level. i wanted him to evaluate some of the proposals that president trump has made regarding the new deal for black america. one of the proposals that president trump has made is allow the conversion of funds for poverty programs to be converted from those programs would ro loans that he hen provide to the poor. i'm feeling a little confused about and perplexed as to how th