a lot of people want to know more about carolyn maloney and her background.gs was on the forefront of the impeachment inquiry, she got a bad back on some of this. >> this with the committee i served as staff director and counsel on or five years and worked closely with elijah cummings. a quick nod to him during those days, when we were the republican majority and they were in the minority he was focused on counter narcotics. that was where he put his real effort but turned it over to oversight of the president and impeachment. carolyn maloney i feel with the rest of the membership on that committee are going to make a hard left turn if you can believe it. you will see them trying to make new tracks in the direction of subpoenas. i would not be surprised if they follow the star chamber idea being used by the intelligence committee where they do everything in private and the american public doesn't know what is going on. i expect your politics all the time and sadly that committee is moving more in the direction of being an overreach committee than an oversight

and carolyn maloney. carolyn maloney will take over as acting chair. the astros team one went away after slugging past the yankees. >> at the wallet is gone. >> a pair of three run home runs powering houston 8-3 win, yankees facing elimination in game 5 on fox sports one. the time is 11 minutes after the top of the hour and donald trump blasting do nothing democrats, nancy pelosi and adam schiff, over the impeachment inquiry. >> they continue the outrageous impeachment witchhunt. what they're really doing is coming after the republican party. heather: texas congressman brian babin says the investigation will end like the others with a dead end and he joins us live up next. how safe are you in the sky? the new airplane evacuation test about to get underway. >> today's democrats don't do anything, they continue the outrageous impeachment witchhunt, they are coming after the republican party and what they are really doing is coming after and fighting you and we never lose. heather: donald trump calling out democrats and the refusal to legislate at the dal

and now it's my pleasure to call on carolyn maloney, the acting chair of the oversight committee. mrs. maloney: i will be brief. i have just two points. first i want to my colleagues for their work. this is a very grave matter. as they have shown, we are acting deliberatively, thoroughly and without delay. secondly, i want to remind everyone of the words of our beloved former chairman, elijah cummings and quote, he said we are fighting for the soul of democracy, end quote. that is our core mission under the constitution. we cannot allow a president or any president to extort foreign countries into interfering with our democracy. we cannot allow a president to withhold critical military aid that we have in congress provided in order to counter russian aggression. and we cannot allow a president to ignore dualy authorized subpoenas, withheld documents, prevent witnesses from testifying, covering up wrongdoing and obstructing congress. this is a fundamental corruption of the constitution and abuse of power and a breach of the oath of office. thank you. and i now yield to the chairman

along with my friend, carolyn maloney, i introduced the debbie smith act with the support of the rape, abuse, and incest national network, rain. i thank congresswoman maloney for her untiring work to end and prevent sex trafficking and other forms of violence against women, which i also support. and for her willingness to reach across the aisle to get things done. she is a warrior for vulnerable women and children, and i'm so proud to work with her on this important legislation. debbie smith programs provide much needed funding for crime labs to process d.n.a. evidence and strengthen the national d.n.a. database, which has over 17 million profiles on it. it provides justice to victims. under debbie smith, congress provides $151 million annually to state and local labs for d.n.a. and rape kit testing. better technology has improved our ability to test and track d.n.a. samples from crime scenes, and this data is making a real difference in the efforts to bring rapists and other sexual predators of sexual violence to justice. f.b.i.'s d.n.a. database has been used in more than -- ready 4

some people have suggested that if carolyn maloney decides that's what she wants, gerald conley would he's been in some trouble about breaking some rules, maybe that wouldn't work. there's even talk about ha keem jeffries moving over from the judiciary committee. how much does this matter? >> ultimately, you know, it's going to be a sliver or percentage, we have so many things going on as we were talking about before we started here. but it points to a quandary. you're right that this is sort of about the integrity. at a moment of sort of a necessity, we have just lost one of the few people on capitol hill who commanded that type of respect from both parties. i was struck by the amount of outpouring that came out, the comments that came from republicans. and it wouldn't just pro forma, like a colleague of ours died. they sort of explained why they found him to be a valuable presence there. and so in a moment where the legislative branchs under both parties for decades now has been fritering way seriousness, their own kind of constitutional duties when we're sort of creeping up toward

any way they could and what was really interesting actually there was a representative called carolyn maloney and she said will you assure us that you will satisfy all of the financial regulators concerns before you set up libra and he said yeah absolutely all their concerns and she said you know many financial regulators they are and she started really them off there was the federal reserve the c f.t.c. the o.c.c. the f.c.c. the f.h.a. f.a.a. the fins that are going to get the idea is. going to make him this is going to make this impossible for him yeah pretty much. mark zuckerberg seemed to suggest in that testimony that the opposition to leave was pretty much based on purely suspicion of facebook's involvement alone and actually the world needs a currency like this yes and he had a good point and the main thing he did to try and scare them is it is a valid point he didn't just do it to scare them was to bring up the specter of china to say as soon as he came up with the libor project we know for a fact that china started speeding up its own plans to make his own digital currency and this i

carolyn want to thank maloney for working with democrats and republicans and groups across the country to come up with something that balances the need real national security and law enforcement measures with privacy. we've loud five amendments. mr. davidson, who i'm sure will concerns me of his when he brings up one of his to be nts, is going entitled to speak. if people don't like the bill, they can vote against it. my guess is it's going to get a strong bipartisan vote. i hope it does so we can send it. that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. you, mr. ll: thank speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. you and i don't get to be down here on the rule together very so i feel like i got a fresh ear in you, my friend from colorado. he and i discuss these matters all the time so i understand his tone. it's as if i'm saying this bill has no merit, because very often down here and saying exactly that. day is a very different we're down here. i will say it again if i didn't say it loud enough

and now it's my pleasure to call on carolyn maloney the acting chair of the oversight committee thank you. and i will be brief and i have just 2 points 1st i want to commend my colleagues for their diligent work this is a very grave matter. as they have shown we are acting deliberative leave thoroughly and without delay secondly i want to remind everyone of the words of our beloved former chairman eliza cummings and quote he said we are fighting for the soul of democracy in quote. that is our core mission under the constitution we cannot allow a president or any president to extort foreign countries into interfering with our democracy we cannot allow a president to withhold critical military aid that we have in congress provided in order to counter russian aggression and we cannot allow a president to ignore duly authorized the penis with held documents prevent witnesses from test testify covering up wrongdoing and obstructing congress and this is a fundamental. corruption of the constitution and abuse of power and a breach of the oath of office that. q and i feel that now to the chai

i spoke a few moments ago with carolyn maloney, she will be the acting chair of the committee for the and she says that she hasn't been involved yet. she couldn't even go to the testimony this morning with gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union, because she was cheering to other hearings. she's going to have to pick up your instep and where cummings left off. >> trace: chad pergram live on capitol hill. thank you. congressman elijah cummings, democrat from baltimore, was 68 years old. my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you've got allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands? >> trace: convicted murderer jodi arias who stabbed her ex-boyfriend and shot him in the head claiming she did not get a fair trial. her lawyers in arizona today arguing there was prosecutor misconduct during her trial and that the judge allowed the case to turn into a media circus. arias is looking to overturn her murder conviction. in 2013, a jury found her guilty of killing her e

i caught up this afternoon with carolyn maloney. she is a democrat in new york city.ed to interim chair. she is not dialed in directly on investigations. i said have you been able to go down to hear testimony from gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the eu? she said no. i had two subcommittees to chair myself. she is more involved with eliot engel and adam schiff. connell: anything we should know about the gordon sondland testimony? that was the big event in terms of impeachment inquiry, the ambassador to the european union. what do we take away there? >> the key there whether or not there was quid pro quo. he tried to clean up some comment with the then acting ambassador to ukraine, bill miller, i said, i think you're reading too much into that. some opening remarks he dialed some of that back. he was not maybe 100% sure what the president was saying. that is important. that deposition could go to 10:00 tonight. he is is as a big witness as marie yovanovitch, former ambassador to the ukraine. i spoke to one republican source that knows him well. he always wanted

have a news conference and he will be joined by adam schiff, by james mcgovern, elliott angle, carolyn maloney of the oversight and reform committee. she's now the acting chair of that. the republicans are hold ago separate news conference right now in the aftermath of this historic vote, kevin mccarthy, the minority leader, the republican leader will be at the news conference, steve scalise, liz cheney and others. so the process is already beginning, the intense debate. but the history has already occurred. >> yes. i mean, the history has already occurred and, of course, it's happening now. we're in the middle of it. and we don't all quite know exactly how this will unfold. but everybody who took that vote today understands they're not going on be politically accountable, they're going to be historically accountable. the judgment of historic will be critical. and the fact that we've got two different press conferences, democrat and republican, reflects something that is, i regret to say, very fundamental at this point. the parties involved in this situation seem to have alternate realities. a

carolyn b. maloney of new york. the chair: purr -- the chair: pursuant to house resolution 647, the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney, and a member opposed each will criminal five -- each krill control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney. mrs. maloney: this is a car i -- clarifying amendment, clarifying that fincen can use information collected under the bill. this was always our intent but we were concerned that because fincen technically isn't a law ep forcement agency, their authority to use the information under the bill might be unclear. mr. levin's amendment fixes this by explicitly stating that fincen can use the information to issue public advisories and to share the information with financial institutions in order to improve compliance with their know your customer rules. however, fincen would only be able to disclose the information in an aggregated format so it protects the disclosure of personally identifiable information. i want to thank mr. levin for wor

carolyn b. maloney of new york. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-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-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 235. the nays are 188. he amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 5 printed in rt b of house report 116-247 by the gentleman from ohio, mr. davidson, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 5 printed in part b of house report 116-247 offered by mr. davi