mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman from colorado depor the customary 30 minutes and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to this closed rule and to the underlying legislation. quite frankly, i had hoped that when we returned from our easter break that we would be debating and voting on legislation that would help people. i had hoped that maybe we would be able to finally help the hundreds of thousands of dreamers who -- whose lives are now in limbo because of president trump's decision to end daca. that we would be able to pass a bill called the dream act to provide them some peace of mind. we don't see that on the schedule. . millions of young people all across the country have been protesting in front of congressional offices, have been holding rallies, demanding congress debate the issue of gun violence and do something. no, we're not doing that. instead, what we're doing is anoth

mr. mcgovern: ok. who will we direct them to? mr. conaway: the chair. mr. mcgovern: ok. mr. conaway: mrs. hartzler, speak on the amendment, five minutes? mrs. hartzler: thank you, mr. chairman, for including my amendment in the en bloc package package today. broadband is a component to our 21st century economy, affecting virtually every aspect of american life. it's unfortunate that rural communities are all too often left behind from the promise and prosperity of this modern technology. this digital divide is quite evident in my home state of missouri. according to the f.c.c.'s 2018 broadband deployment report, less than half of rural missourians can access broadband internet while nearly all of urban missourians have access to this essential technology. without broadband access, rural communities have difficulty attracting new businesses which provide economic development. students lack technological resources, negatively impacting their educational opportunities and disadvantage them in comparison to those in towns and cities. rural hospitals cannot access telemedicine, a

mr. mcgovern talked a little bit about the aumf. were you surprised about what he said about democratic response of where that goes? mike: no. he has been consistent over the years. it is one of the strange issues that unites liberal democrats like jim mcgovern and more libertarian have been mighty conservatives on the republican side of the aisle. massey comes to mind. these guys are pushing speaker ryan and leadership to vote on a new aumf. it never happens for the reason i think the mcgovern stated, legitimate is correct. it is too hard a vote for people to take. the last time that came around, it cost some people their political careers. never easy to vote on war. yet as mr. mcgovern says, it is , a constitutional responsibility. very clearly defined that congress is the one to make these decisions. --ot of concern yesterday defense secretary james mattis testified before the house armed services committee. he said, ryan, the current aumf is fine. this allows us to fight anyone anywhere. it was a very broad response. democrats a

mr. mcgovern says, it is a constitutional responsibility. lot of concern yesterday -- the defense secretary testified before the house armed services committee, and he said, like brian, the current aumf -- like ryan, the current aumf is fine. was a very broad response to democrats are concerned there are no constraints. and considering the volatility of this president, their is real concern. so no surprises within mr. mcgovern's responses, but it is a debate that is not going to go away, particularly as this issue heats up. and if we start firing more missiles, it will be an issue. host: a lot of talk about the november elections. what did you gain from that? >> for all the talk you hear that it is time for nancy pelosi 70 plus leaders who have been around for 15 years -- for all of the talk of the younger generation overthrowing them, there is still a lot of support for them in congress among guys like mcgovern. nancy is a trueblue liberal. guys like mcgovern support that. they like her tenacity. they like everything about her, her fundrais

mr. mcgovern from massachusetts for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, the farm bill should be about helping our farmers and strengthening our food and nutrition programs. it shouldn't be about beating up on poor people. as the house agriculture committee prepares to mark up the 2018 farm bill, i rise to express my deep concern and my outrage with reports that republicans on the committee are considering drastic cuts to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, known as snap. press reports indicate that the majority intends to dismantle the core function of snap, to pay for a huge new untested bureaucracy while cutting and even eliminating benefits for millions of the most vulnerable americans, including seniors, older workers, individuals with disabilities, working families with children, and other struggling adults. we're still awaiting the full details of the plan which was crafted behind closed doors without input from democrats on the committee. i am not even sure any input from republicans on the committee. but this is what we have le

mr. mcgovern, for as much time as he may consume. mr. mcgovern: i want to thank my colleague, the gentlelady from missouri for her leadership and i'm honored to join her and other colleagues in recognize of genocide. preventing genocide is a moral imperative that deserves to be at the very top of our priority list. mass atrocities on a large scale, deliberate attacks against civilian populations and include genocide and crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. after the holocaust, the state sponsored persecution and murder of groups by the nazi regime between 1941 and 1945, people all around the world vowed to never again stand by in the face of general guide. they have been committed in guatemala, the former yugoslavia slaffa, sudan and among other places. hundreds of people have been tortured, murdered and disappeared. and millions more have been forced to flee with profound humanitarian, political and national security consequences. i don't believe the world's failure to prevent atrocities is because no one cares. in t

mr. mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. speaker, last week after turning their backs on bipartisanship, republicans on the agriculture committee advanced a highly partisan farm bill that hurts our most vulnerable constituents. the farm bill cuts the supplemental nutrition assistance program, known as snap, by over $23 billion. it eliminates state flexibility. it erects new barriers to assessing the program and creates a massive new untested and underfunded bureaucracy. most troubling, the bill reduces or eliminates benefits for nearly two million kids, veterans, working families, and other vulnerable adults. the bill was drafted in secret and is not reflective of the 23 leargs our committee held on snap over -- hearings our committee held on snap over the past few years. i'm wondering where some of these proposal provisions originated. were they cooked out by some think tank? creation of speaker ryan who is desperate to pass his extreme welfare agenda before he retires at the end of this congress? this secretive closed proc

mr. mcgovern: i have always had confidence in the process. i have had confidence that minority views were heard and considered. confidence that my views mattered. mr. chairman, you have completely turned that long-standing practice and tradition upside-down. if it was never the intention for us to participate in the process, if it was the plan all along to use this committee and this farm bill as one last ditch effort at advancing speaker ryan's flood welfare reform plan, why did you for 2 1/2 years parade all these experts before this committee? not a sgl

mr. mcgovern? no. mr. bell la? mr. develop la no. miss lou grish im? no miss custer? miss custer no. mr. nolan? no mr. nolan no. miss boost toss? no. mr. milano? mr. milano no. miss mass ket? no. >> miss plaskett no. miss adams no. mr. evans no. mr. lawson? no. mr. owe lal ran? no. mr. panetta? mr. panetta no. mr. sew to? mr. soto no. miss blunt rochester no. mr. chairman? yes. >> mr. chairman, yes. mr. chairman, the vote is 26 yays to 20 nos. >> thank you. the ayes have it and the motion to pass the bill and move to the house voted is agreed to. does any member give notice of intent to file dissenting views to hr 2? if so, please have them submitted to the council's office room 1407 by noon on april 23rd, 2018. take this opportunity real quickly to thank the staff on both sides. [ applause ] thank you. none of this side on the diaz have a clue how many hours and family ee vnts and personal time was given up to get us to this point. and i sincerely thank the staff on both side. without objection usual instructions given to staff that consist of making such technical conforming change

mr. mcgovern. mr. mcgovern: 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 stice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to 15 requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. >> today i proudly honor the mur freesborough volleyball team to win the championship. they egyptian conference title. that win was a career milestone for moach mike lane. it marked the 1,000th combined career win while coaching volleyball at the middle school and high school levels. i extend congrat layings to the players, coaching staff, schools ' officials who supported these young ladies. southern illinois is proud of you. go blue devils. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? . . mr. mcgovern: tomorrow

mr. mcgovern. >> i have five minutes so great. that's really good. [laughter] look, it is wrong to say that people are not adversely affected by this language. we have cbo analyses and we talk about benefit cuts and those are the words that cbo uses. we are asking these questions and their basic questions and these are questions that were being asked by people in the states and this process seems to be backwards. the chairman says we want to work with you but you really didn't. we were notified about this at the last minute and our input was not valued. the hearings that you conducted should have been based on this plan and that just makes sense. we should've called in governors and the people who oversee snap programs in various states and beneficiaries and antihunger groups and we should have called in experts on the left and right and anyone in between should've brought them together and talk the stuff out. the idea that they got two years to bear this out well, maybe this is not the best idea. that is what hearing is about and that's what deliber

mcgovern. humphrey,s for hubert one absent. california, 174 votes. >> mr. airman, california is going to stay in this democratic party. 91 votes for senator mccarthy. [applause] 51 votes for senator mcgovern. [applause] boats for channing phillips. 14 votes for hubert humphrey. booing] abstained.ia will -- california is as followed. 14 votes for humphrey. votes for sen. mcgovern. 17 votes for channing e phillips. one abstaining. zone, five. >> mr. chairman, the canal zone, the crossroads of the world, cast one vote for mcgovern. four votes for president -- vice president humphrey. [applause] the canal zone of votes for votes for mcgovern. colorado, 35. boats foro casts 16.5 buys resident humphrey, 10 votes votesnator mccarthy, 5.5 for sen. mcgovern -- vice , 10 votes forhrey sen. mccarthy, 5.5 votes for sen. will govern, and three votes for channing phillips. -- colorado, 16.5 boats for humphrey, 10 votes for mcgovernrthy, for for -- four for mcgovern, and three votes for the reverend channing phillips. >> connecticut, 35 votes for hubert humphrey, eight vot

mr. mcgovern another colleagues very, very disappointed as to the partisan nature this has taken. when we talk about the various titles of the bill, obviously we have use it on how they can be improved and changed as well as the nutrition title. i will speak on that later. it's ironic this has become such an issue. four years ago on the previous farm bill we took a program those of a pilot project in california and expanded to ten other states. we have a deadline in 2019 for those pilot projects that would make changes, reforms and improve the nutrition programs to see what works and what hasn't. the education training component are so important. why we to something unproven and untested and create a federal bureaucracy that i believe is not going to pass or be implemented makes no sense to me. let me give you a different take and room to have optimism. the senate is working right now as we speak on writing a bipartisan bill. they need 60 votes. say we vote this out on a partisan vote, what then? a bill on the house floor. maybe there sufficient votes to pass it on a partisan basi

andote for senator mcgovern phillips.r mr. howard: three states have passed so far.his is the vote for organ coming up. oregon coming up. oregon has 35 votes. >> 35 for senator mccarthy. [applause] howard: mccarthy lost one vote. 130 votes, expected to cost 104. this could put humphrey across. [applause] howard: apparently they know it down there. they've been keeping count, too. politicians are pretty good with pen and paper when it comes to counting votes. >> three quarters of a vote for senator ted kennedy. 2.5 four mcgovern. 21.54 senator mccarthy. 103 -- >> this is going to do it. vice president hubert humphrey is that nominee of the democratic party for the presidency of the united states. he went over by some five and a half votes of the 1311 he needed. humphrey supporters going wild there. announcer: sunday morning, on turmoil"erica in --media, politics, and in public policy. and david kennerly, photographer who covered john f. kennedy and the white house. 8:30 a.m. sunday at eastern on c-span's washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. americ

mcgovern. i can pass -- arkansas past two for mccarthy. >> 30 votes for hubert humphrey. two votes for senator mccarthy. one absent. >> california. 174 votes. >> mrchairman, california, which is going to stay in this democratic party, cast 91 votes for senator mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> 51 votes for senator mcgovern. [cheers and applause] >> 17 votes for channing phillips. [cheers and applause] >> 14 votes for hubert humphrey. [crowd booing] >> and one vote abstained. walter: the california delegation pledged to senator robert kennedy, or for the most part to him, he was assassinated, as you know. >> -- 91 votes for senator mccarthy. 51 votes for senator mcgovern. 17 votes for channing phillips. and one abstaining. the canal zone, five. chairman, the canal zone, the crossroads of the world, cast one vote for mcgovern. four votes for vice president humphrey. [applause] >> four votes for humphrey, one for senator mcgovern. colorado, 35. >> colorado casts 16.5 votes for vice president humphrey. 10 votes for senator mccarthy. 5.5 votes for senator mcgovern. three votes, three votes for channing phillips. >> california, 10 votes for senator mc

mr. mcgovern, i love working with them. workd volunteer together at the d.c. central kitchen.mocrat friends on the agriculture committee submitted their priorities that they want to see incorporated into the farm bill for all titles, not just nutrition. there are four priorities, including training which was the fourth bullet they submitted. they are all priorities submitted in the farm bill. host: dennis is in williamsport. go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. i'd like to comment. i get snap benefits. my snap benefits were cut of very minor about, but they were already cut. i would like to comment that this republican tax bill for the rich that they passed, you will have trillion dollar deficits the end of september. the hoover institute has come out and said we had to cut social security, medicare, medicaid. the oldylvania, 67% of people in nursing homes, medicaid is paying for this. you know you are going to try to cut those benefits, steal from the poor, and give to the rich. , only aboutges go half the people that are eligible for food stamps actually get them bec

mr. mcgove mcgovern. >> i think the gentleman for yielding and i am amazed at how this markup has evolved. in the beginning my friends on the other side were talking about how these provisions are the greatest thing since sliced bread. our colleague just basically said don't pay attention to what's in the bill and you may think it's bad but this is the beginning the process and it will change and maybe get better so here's a radical idea. let's start with the very best prospects. rather than something that no one knows much about and in terms of how it will impact the most vulnerable communities are how states will deal with it because they are calling us now wondering what this means and wondering how much money will be provided. you know, the problem with this for proposal that is in this bill is that it's underfunded and unworkable in the states would have to develop massive new bureaucracies that would need to track millions of snap recipients the problem is the bill does provide the necessary money to do that job training is already an option but states really offer them due to their

mcgovern. a speech forhave the reverend mr. channing phillips of washington dc. a favorite candidate of the black caucus to this convention. there are some 212 negroid 212 negrohere -- delegates here. here in the amphitheater new york is holding a caucus right now discussing the violence downtown and how walker is there. >> we are not impressing ourselves. >> several hundred of the mccarthy supporters have gathered into the caucus room, caucus room number one to hear a proposal of all of those who are opposed to the actions taken in this convention. the action of the police and other security agents as they gathered together at the end of the mcgovern speech and go forth to present their objections and be permitted to present a resolution. if not permitted to present that say they doe will not return to the convention tomorrow. they will not come back tomorrow. as one of the delegates said, we are going to bring to a grinding halt this entire convention unless what he calls the atrocities are stopped. he was giving a rousing round of applause here in this concord

now speeches are being made for speech mcgovern, then a for the reverend, mr.hanning phillips of washington, d.c., a favored son of the candidate of 212 newk caucus of the grow delegates here, and those not bound by -- are expected to .ote for channing phillips in the amphitheater, new york is holding a caucus discussing the violence downtown and hal walker is there. wasting valuable time, not instructing ourselves by applauding. >> several hundred mccarthy supporters and others have gathered in the caucus room proposalso hear from by those opposed to the actions taken in this convention, the actions of police and other security agents against many delegates as they gathered at the end of mcgovern's speech and go forward to the rostrum to present their objections and be permitted to present a resolution. if not permitted to present a resolution, they say they will not return to the convention tomorrow. not that they will walk out tonight, but their proposal is they will not come tomorrow. one delegate said we will bring to a grinding halt this entire , what hen

right now, speeches are being made for senator mcgovern and then we will have nomination second speech for the reverend mrchanning phillips for washington, d.c., a favorite son candidate of the black caucus convention, 212 delegates here -- negro delegates here. here in the amphitheater, new york, holding a caucus right now discussing violence downtown. [applause] >> you are wasting valuable time. several hundred of mccarthy supporters and others have gathered into the caucus room here, number one, to hear proposals that all of these -- all of those opposed to the action in the convention, the actions of police and other security agents against the delegates as they gathered together at the end of the speech and go forth and present their objections and be permitted to present a resolution and not permitted, they say they will not return to the convention tomorrow. the proposal is not that they will walk out tonight that they will not come back tomorrow. one delegate said we are going to bring to a grinding halt this entire convention, and he was a rousing round of applause by standing delegates who appla