if you put ms. scott out, you're still going to have the same problem. but with ms. scott there, the terrorizing that has been going on for the last seven days, which i hope to god you've been told, what is truly going on at that school. and i just pray that you all renew -- [bell ringing] -- her contract. >> okay, that concludes public comment. section g, special order of business. there is none tonight. section h, discussion of other educational issues. there are none tonight. section i, consent calendar. items removed. there are none tonight. section j., introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. number one, public and board comments on proposals. let's see. we have -- telephone conference? [please stand by] [please stand by]

scott. mr. kennedy. mr. cramer. mr. sanders. ms. murray. mr. wyden. ms. stabenow. . . whitehouse mr. warner. mr. merkley. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. misharris. mr. chairman. enator enzi: no. the clerk: nine yeas and 11 nays. senator enzi: the amendment is defeated. move to scott number 3. this morning there was no opposition. assume a voice vote is ok. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. hat amendment is accepted. stabenow number 5. >> mr. chairman, i would like to speak on behalf of senator stabenow's amendment. senator enzi: senator wyden. senator wyden: this ensures that taxpayer money is used efficiently and physicaltively. we passed the 2018 farm bill which had historic bipartisan support. it repealed 150 authorities that were duplicative. we understand the rural and agricultural economies continue to struggle at a time when producers are facing hardship, trade, weather, and credit. the farm bill provides much needed certainty to rural america over the next five years. unfortunately, the budget proposal called for $9 billion reconciliation language. senator stabenow's amendment ould s

ms. foxx: reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina reserves. mr. scott: madam chair, i'm prepared to close. ms. foxx: i am prepared to close also. the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam chair, i worked for most of my life. i entered the workforce as a young woman, not because i wanted to, but because i had to. i knew the burden of poverty well. if i didn't work to support myself, if i didn't contribute to my family income, we'd go hungry. well, i've been enormously blessed to have gone from working for survival to working for pleasure and i hope a greater purpose. i know there are millions of women of all ages in this country today who must work to survive, just as i did. when i entered the workforce, equal pay for equal work -- equal pay for women was a demand but not yet the law. today, it is the law. the equal pay act and the civil rights act are clear that pay discrimination is wrong. it is unacceptable. it is illegal. managers who discriminat

ms. foxx: reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina reserves. mr. scott: madam chair, i'm prepared to close. ms. foxx: i am prepared to close also. the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam chair, i worked for most of my life. i entered the workforce as a young woman, not because i wanted to, but because i had to. i knew the burden of poverty well. if i didn't work to support myself, if i didn't contribute to my family income, we'd go hungry. well, i've been enormously blessed to have gone from working for survival to working for pleasure and i hope a greater purpose. i know there are millions of women of all ages in this country today who must work to survive, just as i did. when i entered the workforce, equal pay for equal work -- equal pay for women was a demand but not yet the law. today, it is the law. the equal pay act and the civil rights act are clear that pay discrimination is wrong. it is unacceptable. it is illegal. managers who discriminat

scott: an additional minute. ms. delauro: thank you. women continue to earn 20% less than men on average, according to the census data, and women earn less regardless of the choices they make in their career or education. and across industry. whether you're a financial manager, a registered nurse, a school teacher, an executive, a pay gap exists between men and women. 10 years ago we passed the little ledbetter pay fair act. it reopened the courtroom door but did not address the underlying issue at hand today. we have an opportunity to pass the paycheck fairness act. it is a matter of right and wrong. discrimination is unacceptable and we are all diminished when we fall short. president kennedy said, when he signed the equal pay act, this would add to our laws another structure basic to democracy, affirm our determination that when women enter the labor force, they will find equality in their pay envelope. we can do this today on the floor of this house. i urge my colleagues to please pass, on both sides of the aisle, to vote for the pa

ms. parker would understand what she's up against. i'm out of time. i yield back. chairman scott: thank you. the gentlelady from oregon, ms. bonamici. ms. bonamici: thank you for holding this hearing. thank you to all of our witnesses. ms. parker and journey, especially thank you to you for being here and telling your story and reminding us of the costs of higher education are not just about tuition. housing, childcare. so many other costs as well. i also worked my way through. i started two years of community college, two years of college, three years of law school. combination of grants, loans, and work study. and ended up because it was a long time ago with a manageable amount of debt. my first job was with the federal government not with the law firm where i could have made moreon i. unfortunately that's not the story i hear frequently today. i'm glad we're having this hearing. especially when we're talking about students who remain underrepresented. i'm also glad that there seems to be a general recognition about the importance of higher education among people here today. we

scott, and the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: i can't hear the gentleman. the committee will come to order. please take your conversations off the floor of the house. i recognize the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, madam champlete i would like to thank, first, the gentlelady from connecticut for her decades of leadership fighting for working women. in 1963 the pay equity act codified the right -- madam chair, the house is not in order. the chair: the house is not in order. and the gentleman is trying to speak. the gentleman from virginia is once again recognized. mr. scott: thank you, madam ir-- madam chair. in 1963 the pay equity act, the equal pay act, codified the right to equal pay for equal work regardless of sex. in fact, equal pay act was enacted one year prior to the civil rights act of 1964, that for the first time provided for enforcement of anti-discrimination laws. ov

ms money is alleged by the u.s. government of lying about what sky com did and what scott khan's relationship to is she also is accused of lying to us banks about the relationship between law and sky call it so much so that these banks were at risk of running afoul of u.s. sanctions and possibly being fined and it's officials being jailed for allowing iranian money to come through the u.s. financial system the situation is this the u.s. wants to bring this monkey to brooklyn for trial on these charges the canadians have detained ms monk who has two homes in british columbia and they're trying to work out if when she can actually be extradited there's a hearing coming up on march sixth however just because she has this hearing to try to fight her proposed extradition doesn't mean that money will be coming to the united states any time soon for its part beijing is disgusted and upset that the canadian government is trying to move ahead with efforts to extradite ms monk to the united states it says that not only other charges against. unfounded they're accusing both canada and the united states of engaging in a kind of p

ms. page of course is the one going on book stewart. -- tour. >>> you're usually crystal clear. thank you, scott. parents, what kinds of books do you read to your kids? new research suggests that storytime is better with traditional print books and not the books that we have on our e-readers. reading print books to children generated more conversation and let to better interact, with did you gettal books, inter's was more focused. at the e-books or fine, like on an airport -- >> you know, i have the 2-year-old. >> will you do storytime for us later? >>> sure. it's a good time to do that. here's a look at the clouds hanging over san jose. the rain we will see today as the kids are heading off to school, you just want to make sure they have the rain gear. by the time that last school bell rings there may be some rain and possibly thunderstorms moving through a lot of yellows and reds showing up indicating heavier rain. as well some lightning strikes detected. so the storm moving again, will have enough energy and lift to possibly bring us storms, even some hail. here's the center of the storm, thou

lawyers discover e-mail back and forth between scott hall, janet's ex-boyfriend, and janet. >> ms.ome of the e-mails are flirty, some of them are sexual in nature. >> janet dated him for a very long time. and she was always, i guess you would say flirtatious with scott. you know, she still communicated with him. but when raven moved in, she officially ended it with scott to start dating raven. >> the defense immediately went to the judge and asked for a mistrial. >> withholding those e-mails has allowed the state, through its witnesses, to present a very dishonest portrait of ms. abaroa, a dishonest portrait of my client and a dishonest portrait of their relationship. let's create a portrait of this dominating, controlling, awful person. and by doing so, that helps us convince the jury, well no one else could have done it, it had to be him. >> but the judge isn't buying it. >> the motion for mistrial in the court's discretion is denied. >> the judge says that this was just sloppy recordkeeping by the prosecution. >> the defense tried to paint it to be as if she were in some type of

ms. brown, any of you, do you think that's feasible, or am i being too tough on them. >> mr. scott, i would say that the comprehensive consumer credit reporting reform act includes a very important solution to this and that is to give people the right to appeal disputes. right now disputes are a mess. we tried to fix them in 1996, in 2003, and this bill includes a number of factors to fix them better, but up until now as ms. wu has testified in great detail, you've got a system that's gained against the consumer. so that would be my first advice. >> and i agree absolutely that the credit bureaus need to be brought to account on disputes. the comprehensive credit -- consumer credit reporting reform act would do that. do you know that 40% of disputes involve debt collectors but they only provide 13% of the account information in the system. you got to think, is a debt collector going to be fair about removing the mistakes or are they going to want to keep it on so they can get paid from whoever. >> one of the things i want to do is i think this dispute resolution needs to be improved

ms. pelosi: thank you very much. thank you very much to our colleague, chairman defazio, chairman scott, and chairwoman bustos. again i want to express thanks and gratitude for the patience, love, and support of danny's wife and their daughters. my colleagues, once again, please join me in thanking my distinguished chief of staff, danny weiss. madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, to suspend the rules and on h.r. 596, as amended, which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: h.r. 596, a bill to print united states government recognition of russia's annexation of crimea. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes y electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-cap

ms. wilcox: i believe the law could have saved her life. those around scott thorpe, the man who killed my daughter, were very concerned about him. he actually had been evaluated for what we call a 5150 hold in california, the involuntary, 72-hour mental health hold. and he was able to hold it together and not meet the criteria for the mental health hold. but this would have empowered his family members to take action to remove the firearms. chair graham: given the tools. ms. wyatt, how money people are in the state of washington? ms. wyatt: i might get in trouble for this one. can you hear me? ok. i believe, i'm not quite sure, i believe it is either 6 million or 7 million people. in king county, where i am from, there is about 2.2 million and growing. chair graham: how many people are affected by this? ms. wyatt: by the extreme risk protection order? i don't know the numbers statewide. in my county, my unit or myself, we worked on -- in 2018, we worked on 70 extreme risk protection orders. the vast majority were initiated by law enforcement. chair graham: mr

scott. :i want to thank everybody for being here. senator mcsally and commander elliott and ms. babb. i have two daughters. is disgusting that these things happen. if you are raising daughters you are always scared to death that this is going to happen. it's very disappointing that anyone would do this to another human being. for commander elliott and ms. babb, when you are reported -- when you reported, are you assigned counsel? how does it work? >> are you talking about the victim's legal counsel? >> do you have counsel that is going to represent you? >> yes, from my experience, i realize i am really just a witness for the government. the legal counsel, their lawyer is there to represent my interest through the entire process. there with me every step of the way. you are not assigned that you retain them. if i met a lawyer i could go to another in. >> but you don't have to pay them? >> no. a i was given an outdated form that did not have special victim counsel. i had never even heard of that. it took me contacting my paternal aunt. she's a retired breeder general after serving 30 ye

ms. waters: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia, a senior member of the financial services committee, mr. scott. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. scott: thank you very much, chairlady. this is, mr. speaker, a very important and timely resolution because in recent years, the lack of sunlight and transparency in financial transactions and corporate formation has brought us to the forefront of the very dangerous role that dark money plays in our financial system. money laundering loopholes in markets like real estate, the arts, antiquities can be taken advantage of by criminals who facilitate their nefarious deeds, and according, mr. speaker, to the financial action task force, real estate alone accounted for 1/3 of all the criminal assets confiscated worldwide between 2011 and 2013, in that three-year period. nd even more concerning, some of these transactions are conducted by anonymous shell companies that are exploiting loopholes in our financial system, creating a lack of transparency or who really is the beneficial owner of the assets. and this is very im

scott in their achievement. with, that madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new hampshire seek recognition? ms. kuster: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to add to my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kuster: thank you, madam speaker. the truth is, i believe there is common ground within our caucus and within the congress as a whole on how to improve access to health care for every single american. we can all agree that we must reduce the cost of the health insurance and prescription drugs and we must protect millions of americans with pre-existing conditions. that's why i'm so excited this week to work with my colleagues on the energy and commerce subcommittee on health and the new democratic coalition, to put forward proposals that will make a real difference in the lives of families in new hampshire and all across this great country. arlier this month, i joined my new colleagues in pushing efforts to strengthen the affordable care act and continue the path toward affordable, accessible univers