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on the proposal on the multi-year bill that senator reed, senator collins, all of us want to see us getto a multi-year bill, you clearly can't build infrastructure in an effective way six months or two years at a time. your proposal the administration proposal that would close the gap between where the gas tax money is and sort of mid level aspirations for what we could do at infrastructure relates to taxing foreign profits. would that be a mandatory tax, secretary? would that be a tax that would be on those profits whether they came back or not? >> yes. yes. it's a part of a larger comprehensive tax reform package and several components. i'll just talk about two. the way we pay for the grow america act is basically there's one to $2 trillion of existing overseas untaxed corporate earnings that would be taxed at a 14% rate. that is 21 percentage points lower than the current rate so it provides an incentive for companies that want to bring the money over to bring it over. but either way, that's the rate. for future profits there would be a maximum of 19% u.s. rate and some discount for

the original bill with senator grams and collins and sessions and myself. senator grassley has been a vocal component of this issue in the past. senator isakson and carver have voted and are supportive of improvements in this space. i know i'm forgetting some others. forgive me. china's trade economic policy of undermining the global market place which major ceos quietly admit to everyone of us they cannot say it publicly, but they know what is going on. the appropriate time is now. i urge my colleagues to support this 14th amendment. >> thank you. i understand his seal here -- zeal here. determine whether some currency misalignment is effectively a subsidy either directly or indirectly to a country's exports. if so, the sanctions can follow. i actually asked my colleagues to vote against this amendment. it could be based on presumptions without support. currency fundamentals. an amendment would allow so many freedoms and arriving at a determination including indirect subsidies raised on some measure of under evaluation that it would prove entirely ineffect

the original bill with senators graham and collins and sessions and myself and brown and stabenow. this administration -- senator grass yn grassley has been vocal on this. china's trade economic policy of undermining the global marketplace where major ceos admit to us. they can't say it publicly because they retaliate. shotgun something should be done about it. the appropriate time is now. i urge my colleagues to support this important amendment. >> i thank the senator from new york. i understand his zeal here. to determine whether some measure s a subsidy directly or indirectly to a country's exports. if so, then the sanctions can follow. it teams to provide for trade sanctions that can be based on assumptions without support. it would invite trade sanctions from other countries on the basis of some sorts of pre presumptions presumptions. it would allow so many degrees of freedom in arriving at a subsidy determination including indirect subsidy of undervaluation that it would prove infective. that's my view. i'm concerned about it. it raises the likelihood of trade disputes and tr

the original bill the senators graham and collins and sessions and mime self and brown and stabbing now burr and portman as well as schumer and brown grassley has been a vocal a vocal proponent of this issue in the past come to press conferences. a while ago senators i i isaacson, crapo, bennett carper have voted and are supportive of improvements in the space. i am forgetting some others, so forgive me. china's trade economic policy undermining the global marketplace which major ceos in america quietly admit to everyone of us cannot say it publicly, but they know what is going on should something be done about it the appropriate time is now. i urge my colleagues to support this important amendment. >> i think the senator from new york. 1932 require countervailing duty investigational review to determine whether some measures of the current misalignment are effectively -- is effectively a subsidy either directly or indirectly to a country's exports. if so, the sanctions can follow. i actually asked my colleagues to vote against this amendment. it is likely not compliant with existing in

collins: thank you. senator blunt. senator blunt: thank you chairman. on the proposal on the multi-year bill, you clearly can't build infrastructure in six months, or two years at a time. your proposal, the administration proposal, to close the gap between where the gas tax money is and mid-level aspirations for what we could do with infrastructure relates to tax season profits. would that be a mandatory tax secretary? would it be attacks on the profits, whether came back or not? secretary anthony foxx: yes. there are several components, that i will just talk about too. there is $1-2 trillion in untaxed overseas corporate earnings. 21 percentage point in the current rates. it allows companies that want to bring it over, bring it over. for future profits, there it be a maximum 19% u.s. rate and some discounts for whatever applied rate the companies are paying in the country where the profits were realized. that does not pay for our bill. it goes for other things. it is part of a larger corporate tax reform proposal the administration is pursuing. senator blunt: and the reason for the mandator

collins: i'm entering a bill that is a bipartisan effort to make communities safer by improving accessntal health services for people in the criminal justice system. u.s. jails have replaced in-patient mental health facilities as the largest institutional treatment provider for adults with mental health disorders. each year they're booked into jails as well as millions more coping with less serious mental illnesses that jails are nonetheless required to address. this is not right. our jails are not mental health facilities. we can do better with the way we treat the mentally ill in the justice system and we can do it while increase -- decreasing cost. at a recent talk, ruby wax said, how come every other organ in your body can get sick and sympathy except your brain? we can show some compassion improve lives, reduce recidivism by properly responding to the mental health needs for those in the criminal justice system. i ask my colleagues to join me in co-sponsor of this effort and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from

collins, news4. >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. the former head of the cia just got the bill for mishandling classified material. today a federal judge ordered david petraeus to pay a $100,000 fine and sentenced him to two years probation. but this plea deal means petraeus avoids prison. his career was destroyed by an affair with a womanbiography, a fellow soldier also married with kids. >> today marks the end of a 2 1/2-year ordeal that resulted from mistakes that i made. >> while paula broadwell was writing the book, she was given binders of classified documents from his time commanding the war in afghanistan. she saw strategic notes, conversations between petraeus and president obama and even the names of covert operatives. petraeus had to resign from the cia, a stunning fall for the four hiv star general. i covered and crossed paths with general petraeus in iraq and afghanistan afghanistan. his celebrity status did not always make him extremely popular with other officers but even his rivals respected his intellect. today in court he apologized to those he served with and

bills. just moving you along, i know this is a story that a lot of people who read and write books are very interested in. we finally have a deal it seems, from harper collins and amazon. the publisher and the online retailer have been at odds for years now over the way that books are being sold through amazon and whether they are sold at too deep a discount as far as the publishers are concerned. well, it looks like they have agreed to bury the hatchet for the time being. we have a multiyear here. harper collins will probably reduce the price of their books to meet amazon halfway. a couple of interesting stories but probably neither of these are going to have a major impact on how we see the street trade today. >> a new poll shows a significant increase in the number of americans covered by health insurance. who has benefitted the most from the affordable care act from your reading right now? >> this is interesting because we have hillary clinton here just launching her election campaign and 2016 around the corner and we know the affordable care act was a very very complicated and controversial issue as far as republicans and democrats are concerned. i thi

senators have introduced a bill that would require the food and drug administration to take a closer look at ingredients. senators dianne feinstein and susan collinsderal regulations of the ingredients in personal care products have not been updated for 75 years. >>> hello and welcome back to wusa9 at 6:00. it's exactly 6:29 on this tuesday morning. i'm andrea roane. those soggy semiflooded areas in your neighborhood will spend the day drying out because the sun will come out to help. >>> we're going to be taking a look at some of those areas. >> looks like the weather had an impact on trees. we have a tree down on the southbound side of the gw parkway. i have alternate routes. >> as far as the storm is concerned we're good to go? >> it is over. what a day yesterday. lots of hail. a couple of trees down, power outages. areas along tidal shores, watch out during high tide time. could seacoastal flooding. let's take a look at doppler 9000. just a few light springles through calvert county and anne arundel county, heavy across the bay. then well dry out and we do see some clouds out there but a nice sunrise from our camera. we are going to see sunshi

diane feinstein and susan collins says test the products and see if the ingredients are okay and at what concentration, they have not been updated for 75 years and the bill should pass because it has backing of much of the cosmetics industry. >> also today there is more evidence showing no link between the mmr vaccine and autism even children considered to be at greater risk. researchers studied 95000 kids and found no association between the vaccine for measles mumps and rubella, even with an older sibling on the stem truck. >> this uses a large data set and we hope this assures parents when making decisions for their children. >> parents with children on the autism spectrum are reluctant to vaccinate other siblings. >>> and the vast majority of surgeons have come out against the recommendations of a government task force. they say they should get mammograms every year starting at able 40, the task force recommend that women start it at age 50 and every other year unless there are known risks the american health care society says they should talk to their health care provider if there say family history you may need to start earlier. >> thank you. >>> i

bills related to police body cameras. this will taking on more urgency in the wake of freddie gray's death. he was seriously hurt and killed after being in police custody. david collins reports. >> reporter: video of the arrest of freddie gray by the baltimore city police captured by concerned citizens and city surveillance cameras doesn't provide a full picture of what happened. >> our concern is -- >> reporter: governor hogan brought up that point during the discussion on the first 100 day fz his administration. >> i'll break some news here today. >> reporter: the governor believes police body cameras would help and announced his intention to sign a package of bills to make that happen. >> i think having the real evidence of exactly what happened having everything video taped, is a step in the right direction. >> reporter: one measure provides an exemption for law enforcement to maryland's two-party consent wiretap law. this will allow police to record audio and video without first seeking permission when engaging the public. >> there is some law enforcement agencies in the state that are proceeding in that direction now and this is legislation that they need in or

bill. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. collins: at this point i'm pleased to yield to the distinguished gentleman from california the chairman of the jew tishary committee, mr. isasm -- of the judiciary committee, mr. issa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. issa: i will be supporting the rule but not without trepidation. i will be opposing the underlying bill, but not without regret. the underlying bill could have done what we wanted to do. it could have allowed for the exchange of information while protecting individuals' privacy. it could have limited that information to preventing a cyberterrorist attack. but in fact amendments that were offered on a bipartisan basis, a number of them that could have limited this, would have in fact allowed us to have the confidence that this information would be used only for what it was intended. since 9/11, the government has begun to know more and more about what we are doing, who we are, where we live where we sleep, who we love, who we do business with, where we tr

collins: thank you mr. president. mr. president, first let me commend senator cornyn and senator klobuchar for the work that they have done on this antitrafficking bill. this is in fact a horrendous crime. just a few months ago in my home state in bangor a couple was arrested for allegedly trafficking a 13-year-old girl. that's what we're talking about mr. president. and that's why this legislation is so important. i'm proud to be a cosponsor of the bill and commend senator cornyn and senator klobuchar and others for working so hard on it. mr. president, the antitrafficking bill deals with the law enforcement piece of this horrendous problem but we also need to pay attention to prevention programs, and that is why this afternoon we will vote on a proposal that senator leahy and i along with senator heitkamp ayotte, murkowski and baldwin have put forth to reauthorize the runaway and homeless youth act programs which otherwise -- which already have expired. they expired in 2013. these are absolutely critical programs to preventing homeless youth and runaway youth from ending up in the hands of sex traffickers. the runaway and homeless youth programs ar

collin, remember these issues affect all americans. senator paul said that a lot of what you think about in the bill of rights and criminal justice reform is for the downtrodden. but the work in terms of protecting privacy and those subpoenas to mr. verizon and to twitter certainly affect all of us. i don't use twitter. i'm sorry. my kids do. so it aaffectffects our kids. we should care about this. it's fantastic there's an organization here in washington like the constitution project that brings people together to address these issues. the last thing i have to do before i thank you and bid you good evening is remind you, tcp can't do this without your help. obviously, the folks who sponsor, who bought tickets tonight, people who respond to the campaigns throughout the year the foundations that support tcp help make this happen. i would ask you, there's an envelope you got on your way in. you can put something in it on the way out or stick it in the mail. please do what you can to help tcp and for all of the lawyers in the room, i know there's plenty of you here, we're always looking for volunteers to help with our work. please reach ou

the presiding officer: the bill will be received and appropriately referred. ms. collins: thank you mr. president. my apologies to the manager of the bill that's on the floor. and i would ... i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. barrasso: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: thank you mr. president. last week i spoke on the floor about a new report by the bipartisan policy center. this report talked about the great progress that we've made so far in this congress as far as getting things done in a bipartisan way. well, i believe that's good news. republicans in the senate are committed to continuing our progress and to holding more votes on areas of bipartisan agreement. so i want to speak today mr. president, about something that senators on both sides of the aisle agree that we can do to protect am

comprehensive justice and mental health act a bill that i am introducing today with a number of my senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and with representative doug collins who is introducing this legislation in the house. this bipartisan, bicameral bill will improve outcomes for people with mental illness when they interact with the criminal justice system. the judiciary committee unanimously approved this bill by voice vote in the last congress and i look forward to working with my colleagues on the committee to move this legislation forward to consideration by the full senate. the comprehensive justice and mental health act is meant to address a very serious problem. the united states has 5% of the world's population but it is 25% of the world's prison population in large part because we have effectively criminalized mental illness. people with mental health conditions disproportionately are arrested and incarcerateed but instead of providing people with adequate access to mental health treatment we let them fall through the cracks and languish in prison. as hennepin county sheriff rich stanic from my home state my home county put it, local jails are

very important bills that provide a comprehensive approach that might prevent human trafficking but especially help survivors rebuild their lives. first, it includes the leahy leahy-collins-mikulski-ayotte amendment to protect run away and homeless youth from trafficking. secondly it includes the klobuchar-cornyn bill as reported last month by the judiciary committee. the safe harbor bill encourages states to treat victims of trafficking as victims and not as oftentimes they're treated as criminals. finally it includes the cornyn-klobuchar bill s. 178, but without the divisive language that limits victims' services that has held us up so long. my amendment really came about as a response to the request of survives, but also the dedicated people who work with them, people who actually see this day by day for whom it's not a theoretical thing but it's an actual day-by-day crises and they've urged to remove the harmful provision that stalled this bill for weeks. now, congress has a long history of passing legislation to address human trafficking. we did it in the leahy-crapo bill on violence against women act. and we consistently have done so without abortion politics being