shalala. ms. shalala: i want to thank the chairman and my colleague from florida, this evening congress will vote on a bill i introduced h.r. 9 20 the venezuelan arms restrix act. this bipartisan bill prohibits the export of defense articles and crime control materials from the united states to security forces of venezuela. the united states should have no business selling these tools for oppression to the maduro regime as it punishes and kills those who are peacefully protesting and demanding a return to democracy. since maduro usurped pow for the january, we have seen headline after headline. maduro's forces kill, injury protesters as standoffs over aid escalate in vens way lafment four dead, hundred december tained after veans way la blackout. venezuela forces kill, punish anti-maduro po testers. a few weeks ago, i traveled to the venezuela-colombia border, where i heard heartbreaking stories of friends and family members dying of starvation and treatable diseases, all while a brutal dictator d

shalala: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment offered by ms. shalala of florida. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 172, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. shalala and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. shalala: thank you, mr. speaker. last year, we learned that of the 59 e.p.a. hires, roughly a third worked as registered lobbyists or lawyers for fossil-fuel producers, chemical manufacturers or other corporate clients. several of these e.p.a. hires have gotten waivers allowing them to participate in actions involving their former clients and this directly impacts my district. in my district, climate change and sea level rise aren't debated. these are not partisan issues. because for miami, climate change is life or death. there are no climate deniers in south florida. this is a real-life example of why these waivers matter and they matter to my constituents. i'm very pleased that h.r. 1 mandates that the executive branch promptly disclose waivers of ethics rules to the office of government et

shalala. rep. shalala: mr. chairman. [laughter] that the special counsel is the most independent investigator the government can have because it is not the government investigating. i strongly support this bill. thank you. i yield back. >> i just think mr. collins for bringing us together in this manner. rep. mcgovern: mr. collins. rep. collins: i just want to add that we have only had one other special counsel, that was in waco. investigator didn't come under this statute, it was a whole different set of procedures animals. rep. mcgovern: thank you for clarifying that. if there are no further questions, you guys are free to go. thank you very much. no other questions. i want to thank our witnesses for being here. in the other members who wish to testify on this? seeing none, this now closes the hearing portion of our meeting. the chair will be in receipt of a motion by mr. desaulnier. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i moved the committee grant h. con. res. 24, expressing the sense of congress that the report of special coun

shalala shalala shalala earn one free night when you stay just twice this spring.book now at choicehotels.com. >>> president issued the first veto of his presidency on friday after the senate voted to overturn his national emergency declaration at the southern border. 12 republicans crossed party lines and voted with democrats. of equal interest some no votes. senator thom tillis a few weeks ago wrote an op-ed in which he pledged to vote against the emergency. when it came time to vote on thursday tillis sided with the president citing a conversation he had with vice president mike pence. >> a lot has changed over the last three weeks. a discussion with the vice president, a number of senior administration officials, a lot of collaboration with my colleague from utah that's a serious discussion about changing the national emergencies act in a way that will have congress speak on emergency actions in the future. >> joining me now, chief political correspondent for "politico" magazine, tim alberta, who has an upcoming book called "american carnage." we want an early

let's bring in donna shalala, a former health and human services secretary.have you here on the program. i did want to read one thing to you from secretary kirstjen nielsen's letter. she said hhs is taking steps to rapidly add shelter beds but they are approaching its maximum capacity and will likely require thousands of additional beds in the coming weeks and months, a potential overflow of children represents our most acute humanitarian risk. i wonder from your perspective, congress woman, is there a way to get dhs the help that she's asking for? >> well, first of all, she needs to obey the law. and that is, we have to have due process for each of these people that are coming to the border. these are mothers and kids escaping terrible situations. we already gave dhs more judges. they haven't filled those position. they haven't filled the positions of the border patrol agents. they have thousands of positions they simply have not filled. if they need more money for humanitarian purposes, they need to make the request. the administration, we've gotten a lette

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on important efforts, including joe cunningham of south carolina, chris smith of new jersey, donna shalala of florida, brian mast of florida as well. our bipartisan bill, the atlantic coast economies protection act, would prevent the five seismic air gun blasting permits that are now under consideration from the bureau of energy management from being issued. it would stop them. i urge my colleagues to protect our precious coastline and to protect the livelihoods of those that depend upon it by supporting h.r. 1149. it is a bipartisan bill. it is the atlantic coastal economies protection act. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, over the past couple weeks i had the honor of visiting three high schools in my district, richland high school, cambria high school and purchase line high school. as a senior member of the house education and labor committee, i love speaking with students about their learning experiences and hearing fr

shalala. indiscernible] gomp govern thank you very much for clifing that. no further questions, you guys are free to go. thank you very much. any other member of the committee -- no other questions. i want to thank our witnesses for being here. and any other members who wish to testify on this? seeing none, this now closes the earing portion of our meeting. the chair will be in receipt of . motion by mr. desaulnier >> i move the committee grant h. con. res. 24, expressing the sense of congress that the report of special counsel mueller should be made available to the public and to congress, a closed rule. the rule provides one hour of debate equally divided by the chair and ranking minority member on the committee of judiciary, waves all points of order on the concurrent resolution. the rule provides that the amendments in the preamble printed in the rules committee report shall be considered as adopted and the concxds con current resolution shall be considered as read. the rule waves all points of order in the concurrent resolution as amended. section 2 pr

some democratic lawmakers are pushing back including congresswoman donna shalala.lorida where tens of thousands of constituents fled oppressive socialist regimes. i asked her about the direction her party is moving in here at home. >> i just came from the venezuelan, colombia border, looking into the faces of people who are the results, hungry, sick, absolutely devastated, a great nation, venezuela, destroyed by socialism. you simply cannot be a grown-up and look into those faces and think that this is a path that any country should take. lauren: why is that message, which seems so bipartisan, which seems so logical, not resonate throughout the entire democratic party? >> well, you're talking about a tiny part of the democratic party. and it's just a loud voice at the moment. and it's tied to certain kinds of issues. and so i keep repeating this, that the vast majority of democrats want nothing to do with socialism. >.lauren: are you worried that florida which wept for president trump in 2016 by 1 percentage point, are you worried that venezuela could be the secret

courtney: congresswoman shalala is very excited about this bill. . parker: i have accrued now -- you said in private. mr. courtney: both private and public can write down to 3%. ms. parker: i'm about $66,000 and i have an associate's degree. it would be beneficial to me. mr. courtney: thank you. >> i agree. also want to say that the north carolina promise is a first dollar plan. where other free programs tend to be last dollar and rely on existing aid first. so north carolina promise, actually better and more generous particularly for low-income students. i think your comment financial literacy is something that we also need to be making sure that we're educating our students. mr. courtney: i hope we're optimistic this is the year to move forward. thank you very much. yield back. chairman scott: the gentleman from michigan, mr. walberg. mr. walberg: thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to the panel for being here. this is an unbelievably important subject for us to be considering. and financial literacy absolutely is something that we have not done well.

they did it in part to help democrats like donna shalala in south florida and i kind of agree with jasonll group. >> chris: let me pick up on this, ben. one other area where they are disagreeing with the leaders is recognizing juan guaido as the interim president. shiewrnl went for it. pelosi went for it the two freshman say not so fast. >> the broader narrative of what's going on in the past few weeks is independent occasion nancy pelosi long hailed as someone who had an iron grip on her conference has lost control of the significant part of that narrative. maybe it's the difference between social media now vs. not having it before when she was in charge. but this is part of that story. >> chris: all right. we have got a couple of minutes left, real quickly, winner, loser? >> my winner is ocasio-cortez who defended omar anti-semitic remarks then got a resolution trying to denounce those watered down to basically nothing. and i think in the process shows that nancy pelosi is not really running things in the house of representatives. there she is. my loser is tom perez the head of the dem

shalala. those two ladies were laser focused on health care.g about trump or stormy daniels. they were talking about health care. it was a winning issue in 2018, where i live. >> well, also, you know, the president is probably has high ground on the party right now. he can say, all you guys talk about is getting rid of the aca. you swore opposition to it, voted like 50 different times to try to take it down. i get the disconnect there. is the real blame on the party? >> yeah. i mean, look. i think there is some blame to be had, to a party that held, i think, you're being generous when you say 50 votes. i think it was closer to 70 votes that were held on repealing obamacare. and it was irresponsible not to have something to replace it with. >> so then you get to the replacement part. scott, how do you see this playing out? now, barr, and many other people say, i don't see the legal path. this legislation has been tested twice at the supreme court level. the mandate was found to be attacks. congress has the ability to tax, so they zeroed out the

shalala: she was a force of nature and trail blazer of women. she was part of the women's right movement, going back to susan b. anthony and fredrick douglass. she would be so proud to see the record number of women elected to congress this year and be an extraordinary mentor. she was the best retail politician i have ever known. i have never served in this body with louise but as a cabinet member i knew her well and joined her in her district eight times and had numerous phone calls over the years. she held degrees in microbiology and public health. her knowledge of health policy, her political smarts help her shepherd critical legislation. thanks to louise, we have the affordable care act, the violence against women act, the genetic information nondiscrimination act, just to name a few. she was the first chairwoman of the rules committee, and i am proud to now serve on this committee, and it is louise's spirit that keeps us going through long rules meetings. we should aspire to be the person she was, to tirelessly serve our constituents, the c