but that i'd be remiss if i didn't think john conyers. lord have mercy, john conyers. every single piece of legislation john conyers led the charge. we were delighted to be better as the issues were very much taking care of and able to be involved in addressing the turns as well. we really have to talk about the issue of ending racial profiling. mr. conyers has introduced the end racial profiling not. on the table and i hope i'm your way out new-paragraph this packet. we will discuss them during the contents of this conversation. i hope you'll grab it because the understanding and explanation of these as a solution or in this packet. this meeting and discussion is laying down the foundation and understanding that the issues are embedded approach must be taken. that will require us on this moment and beyond to be actively involved in a process stalled for years and years a good commonsense approaches approaches to address community policing problems in society. would've lost the trust them the trust them unfortunate because we have many police officers that involve them

conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: thank you. mr. speaker and members, i strongly oppose h.r. 3460 because it is another attempt to derail diplomacy and set the united states on the path to war. h.r. 3460 suspends until january 21, 2017, meaning through the rest of president obama's term, the authority of the president to waive, suspend, or reduce sanctions pursuant to the iran nuclear agreement. this legislation was introduced less than 48 hours ago, and has absolutely no committee process. while the foreign affairs committee has held 30 hearings since the announcement of the joint plan of action in november , 2013, this legislation has never even been a topic of committee discussion. so this is not a serious attempt to legislate. put simply, it's a political attack on the president of the attempt to s and an derail a good deal that is in the best interest of the our ation. but iran -- the iran deal r

john conyers. [applause] thank you so much. there's not one professional law enforcement person will tell you that we need to have change of policy without data. good data leads to good law enforcement. for some reason, some of those within the law enforcement immunity have stopped us from collecting that data -- community have stopped us from collecting that data. police uniont the -- fop, thank you very much. the fraternal order of police sent a letter to john conyers when we introduced a data collection bill and they said simply, mr. conyers, we oppose your bill simply to collect data on routine traffic stops. he said, we do not want our police officers "involved" in sociological experiments. on one hand we want data to craft policy. on the other hand we don't want to collect the data. that is why this bill is so crucial, the end racial profiling act. making sure they do what they're supposed to be doing. for those of you who drove down we determined about 17% of the driving population is african-american. of all delaware, 7

conyers: thank you. my colleagues, i rise in rather strong opposition to the measure before us, h.r. 348, entitled, responsibility and professionally invigorating development act of 2015. t's nicknamed the rapid act. h.r. 348 has a number of flawless. i won't try to go -- flaws. i won't try to go into each and every one of them. this measure would jeopardize public safety and health by prioritizing project approval ver meaningful analysis that occurred -- that is currently required under the national environmental policy act. by giving the proponents of the construction projects greater control over environmental approval process, this bill is the equivalent of giving wall street the authority to write its own regulations for financial responsibility. the bill accomplishes that result in several respects. to begin with, under the guise of streamline the approval process -- streamlining the approval process, foreclosures potential critical input from federal, state and local agencies, as well as from memb

tttive conyers and senator hilleary, but they are still speaking out. and there are's their platform. what happens if you speak out. ow many are you going to speak out. are we prepared to support them injustice. we are doing more than drugs, money and combuns and that is the role of the police because the task ta particular call side is while we see i will. and we walk up to a police officer or a young person. you want to be talking fee him in the neighborhood. are we willing to do what isness to make a dwiff in our society. why do we stop. move forward in our perform of policing. we are recognizing the leadership. and maugsullingsthsh ever sure there i a problem. e have to have a advice ever voice larger than this room. there are 30,000 or more police officers working . the question becomes what does the next lead are look like to you. i believe they bring about the braintrust necessary ment in doings it, we lost one in cincinnati this week. a had-work owning man. but i any it is important to know he is taking the hits. unless, i'll glad to be your sch

i would be remiss if i didn't thank john conyers. lord have mercy, john conyers. every piece of legislation we worked on, john conyers lead the charge. we were delighted to be there as our general made sure our issues and challenges in the communities are taken care of and we're able to be involved and addressing the concerns. we have to talk about the issue of ending racial profiling. mr. conyers introduced the end racial profiling act. let me stop for a second. on a table right outside there, and i hope on your way out, you'll grab the packet. i'm going to talk about a number of bills quickly and we'll discuss them during the context of the particular conversation. but i hope you'll grab this. the particular details are there as well. the understanding and explanation of these and solutions of these are in this packet. we know this meeting and this discussion is laying down a foundation in understanding what the issues are and the approach must be taken. that approach is there it's going to require us from this room on from this moment and beyond for us to be ac

representative conyers: thank you. you note that fetal tissue research as provided innumerable medical benefits and has saved lives. could you please explain what these medical benefits have been? >> yes. in fact, in addition to the early polio vaccine in the 1930's, that was actually a result of fetal tissue research. more recent examples. and the department of health and human services has called fetal tissue research vital to the improvements that are being made in some very important areas. such as retinal degeneration, arkinson's, a.l.s., infectious diseases, development disorders, schizophrenia, diabetes, so there are many, many areaness which fetal tissue research has proved important and we are actually seeing lives being saved because of it. and lives improved because of new treatments. ranking member conyers: thank you. could you explain, please, ms. , the ram he have indications for women if their access to abortion services is further restricted or ultimately denied? >> yes. i think one of the things we're

conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: thank you. mr. speaker and members, i strongly oppose h.r. 3460 because it is another attempt to derail diplomacy and set the united states on the path to war. h.r. 3460 suspends until january 21, 2017, meaning through the rest of president obama's term, the authority of the president to waive, suspend, or reduce sanctions pursuant to the iran nuclear agreement. this legislation was introduced less than 48 hours ago, and has absolutely no committee process. while the foreign affairs committee has held 30 hearings since the announcement of the joint plan of action in november , 2013, this legislation has never even been a topic of committee discussion. so this is not a serious attempt to legislate. put simply, it's a political attack on the president of the attempt to s and an derail a good deal that is in the best interest of the our ation. but iran -- the iran deal r

conyers: mr. speaker, we're prepared to close on this side. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: and i'll reserve the right to close then. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker and my colleagues, just over half century ago john f. kennedy in an era of difficult engagements with the soviets said, let us never negotiate out of fear but et us never fear to negotiate. president obama's diplomacy with iran is grounded in strength and realism, but it's animated by something all too rare in foreign relations, hope. this is a strong deal that represents our best hope for less -- lasting security and peace. as a veteran, i stand with our president and support this deal. thank you. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: i yield myself the remainder of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentle

conyers: mr. speaker, we're prepared to close on this side. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: and i'll reserve the right to close then. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker and my colleagues, just over half century ago john f. kennedy in an era of difficult engagements with the soviets said, let us never negotiate out of fear but et us never fear to negotiate. president obama's diplomacy with iran is grounded in strength and realism, but it's animated by something all too rare in foreign relations, hope. this is a strong deal that represents our best hope for less -- lasting security and peace. as a veteran, i stand with our president and support this deal. thank you. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: i yield myself the remainder of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentle

john conyers. [applause] thank you so much. we can address these issues from a good policing approach. there's not one professional law-enforcement person who will tell you we need to have change of policy without data. that's what they tell me all the time. good data leads to good law enforcement but for some reason some of those have actually stop us from collecting that data. i will never forget our good friends from, call names, our friends at the police union, fob, thank you so much. it was on the tip of your time. the fraternal order of police sent a letter to john conyers we introduced a data collection abilities said we opposed your bill simply to collect data on routine traffic stops. thinking that he said the reason we don't want our police officers involved in sociological experiment. so when one hand we want david to craft a positive on the other hand, we don't want to collect the data. there's a real problem and that's why this bill is a crucial. the end racial profiling act, collects data, holding law enforcement

conyers for your leadership on that as well. don't be fooled, in essence we do want body cams. we thank god for dash cams. want to make sure our policies are in place and what point they have to lay them on. we are pleased officers using body cams but somehow or another they become obstructed at the time when some of those controversial issues accrue. the policies must be in place to hold him accountable. that must happen. it's not just there. the naacp wants tashkent and body cams. we want down cameras and taser cameras. any of us thought that taser was a nonlethal form of force to utilize me these cases. we just had a case to much ago were a young man was tasered once and then three more times before they stop. the cause of death wasn't that taser froze up his muscles that he fell off the roof it wasn't that he had his head on the corner of occur. it wasn't a child was a taser someone with taste and they died as result of the. he was a taste for times the official cause of death, electrocution. as we talk about these issues we want to make sure there's a camera on those as we

conyers for his opening statement. mr. conyers: thank you very much, mr. chairman. to the members of the judiciary committee and those here in the room, as this one-sided hearing title suggests -- by the way, i have a file on these unusual titles that come up from time to time. we will likely hear a series of allegations leveled against planned parenthood, one of the most popular organizations for almost 100 years that is based -- that it engaged in unlawful conduct based solely on a series of deceptive, undercover videos. the center for medical progress, the entity that found these videos in which could answer significant and troubling questions about their accuracy and veracity is not here today. in addition, the majority chose not to invite planned parenthood, the target of today's attacks. hear from our witnesses, we should keep in mind the following points. to begin with, there is no credible evidence that planned parenthood violated the law. the videos wrongly implied that planned parenthood sells fetal tissue and organs for profit. that is not the case. the l

conyers allowing me to be on this panel today. have been wanting to participate for a while, and it's a great opportunity to have all of you all come here today and here with so many things are going on. chance, often get the being we are here inside the beltway, but you need to understand how things are really working. appeared lone woman today, i also want to talk about a couple issues with regard to black women and policing. some of the distinctions and unique factors that are faced. so without further it do, let me go into a few things. committee, army's and is to eliminate racial discrimination. we are founded by former president john f. kennedy in 1963, not only to eliminate racial discrimination but protect civil rights laws. we engage on issues where we see the inherent discrepancy, that there is discrimination and disparities occurring. the criminal justice system has been looking at those for years. recently, with the highlighting of what has happened in ferguson , what happened with eric garner, what happened with sandr

john conyers was a leader, that was his bill. all of us supported it and worked under his direction to try to get it passed but it took us 15 years. but the day that it passed, miss coretta scott king was in the gallery. with all of the family. and i can tell you that with all of us, went on the floor to make our speech in conjunction with urging the passage of that bill, when you looked up in that gallery and you saw mrs. king and that king family, not only did you realize that you were a part of -- a major part of american history that day, but that this was a great, grand family that deserved this recognition in honor of dr. king, who had led the civil rights fight and who had given his life in order for the rest of us to be able to enjoy not only every day, but a special holiday. and i represented the 21st congressional district, which later became the 11th congressional district of ohio. a high concentration of poor, high concentration of blacks, high concentration of those who are dependent upon emergency rooms for health c

conyers bill, and i became a co sponsor of his bill, and i was proud to be a member of congress and proud i could sponsor this as a co sponsor it as a first act in the congress. it was an amenable that it took us 15 years to be able to pass that bill the other legislation was introduced and passed the same day in many cases, but we laboriously worked at trying to get the members of the house to agree upon -- and the senate, of course, to agree on that legislation. john conyers was the leader and that was his bill and all of us supported it and worked under his direction to try to get it passed, but it took us 15 years, the day it pass ed miss coretta scott king was in the gallery with the family, i can tell you that when all of us went on the floor to make our speech, in conjunction with the urging of the passage of that bill you looked up in the gallery and saw mrs. king and the king family, not only did you realize you were a part of -- a major part of american history that day, but that this was a great grand family that deserved this recognition in honor of dr. king who had led the ci

reporting from capitol hill, i'm rosemary conyers, nbc news. >> another round of towing begins in centerity. this latest round of restrictions began at 6:00 p.m. following days of towing in other parts of center city. if you are towed, expect a 76 dollar ticket. the no parking area is about to expand beginning at 9:00 tomorrow morning, any vehicles parked on routes will be towed that's in addition to the yellow area parking enforcement you see on your screen. another sign of what's to come in the streets of philadelphia. nbc10 at 18th and market tonight as please escorted several trucks hauling security barriers, they're going up in advance of the pope's arrival on saturday. >>> mayor nutter is making sure taxpayers realize they won't be paying for the papal visit. nutter reiterated today the world meeting of families will reimburse the city for the cost of the events. the two sides stating exactly that. it's estimated the papal weekend will cost the city $12 million, a detailed breakdown shows 4.9 rqh[)q(artment.the police and that includes traffic and crowd control. along with security

i know that congressman conyers had to go vote.o thank him and his staff for their invitation to the vent as well as for setting up this event and the congressman's lifetime of service for these issues. he's been in this fight for a long time. a long time. [ applause ] as have many of you. not just here on the panel and on. paid y the podium. a lot of fighters. i've seen a lot of people who have walked a lot of lines and walked across a lot of bridges, [ applause ] whether you have been in the struggle for years or whether you have new to it and part of the new and exciting and dynamic young voices that we need to tell us the truth, i commend you and i'm so, so glad to hear from you. your commitment is important, your ideas are important, your energy and your passion. and now is the time that we have to all come together around these important issues. because while we have made just extraordinary progress since the cbc was founded over 40 years ago, it is clear that we have so much more work to do. in the recent weeks and months we

speak at the congressional black caucus legislative conference tomorrow hosted by congressman john conyers with a focus on criminal justice reform and policing in the minority community. that is live on c-span two at 11:00 a.m. eastern. at tonight's townhall in rochester, new hampshire, donald trump field with a question from a man who called muslims a problem in this country and that "we know our president is one." here is donald trump's response. >> is a problem in this country. it's called muslims. we know our current president is one. you know he's not even american. but anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us. that's my question. when can we get rid of them? >> we looking at a lot of different things. a lot of people say that. we're looking at that and plenty of other things. seven years of 0% interest rates in the u.s. and the new york times asks what's another two or three months among friends? that's the conclusion janet yellen and their colleagues reached in their policy meeting when they left interest rates unchanged. the story says 13 of 17 officials co

conyers for his opening statement. mr. conyers: thank you very much, mr. chairman. to the members of the judiciary and those here in the room, as this one-sided hearing itle suggests -- by the way, have a file on these unusual titles to come up from time to time. we will likely hear a series of allegations leveled against planned parenthood, one of the s forpopular organization almost 100 years that is based solely on a series of deceptive, undercover videos. the entity that filmed the could answerch significant and troubling questions about their accuracy and harass the is not here today . in addition, the majority chose not to invite planned parenthood, the target of two attacks. we should keep in mind the following points. to begin, there is no evidence the planned parenthood violated the law. implies that planned parenthood sells fetal tissue and organs for profit. that is not the case. law governing fetal tissue research, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support provides in part that no one can knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise any type of fetal

i know that congressman conyers had to go and vote. he is pulled in many different directions. i want to thank him and his staff for setting up this panel and the congressman's lifetime of service to these issues. and he has been in this fight for a long time. a long time. as have many of you not just on the panel but out here in the audience. i see a lot of fighters. i see a lot of people who have walked a lot of lines and walked across a lot of bridges. and so i thank you for that as well. whether you have been in this struggle for years or whether you are new to it and part of the new and excited young voices we need to tell us the truth, i commend you and i'm so glad for your energy and your passion. and now is the time we have to come together around these important issues. while we have made extraordinary progress since the cbc was founded over 40 years ago, we have much work to do. there's not just the overall philosophy. we say there's more work to do. we have to keep marching. we've seen it played out in stark and painful reality captured for the world to see. this fig

lynch will speak at the congressional black caucus legislation later today hosted by congressman john conyers with a focus on criminal justice reform and policing in minority communities.that is live on c-span two at 11:00 a.m. eastern. federal reserve chair janet yellen announced that interest rates will. increase yet and then she held a news conference. this is about one hour. ms. yellen: good afternoon, as you know from our policy statement released a short time ago, the federal open market committee reaffirms the current % rate for the federal funds rate. since the committee met in july, the pace of job gains has been solid. the unemployment rate has declined an overall labor market conditions have continued to improve. inflation has continued to run below our objective reflecting declines in energy prices. we expect the downward pressure on inflation from these factors will fade over time but recent global economic and financial developments are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term. these developments may also restrain u.s. activity somewhat but have not

you're pro-life, representative conyers hit the nail on the head, you have better things to do.eed to be educated. we have infrastructure in this nature that needs to be repaired. why don't you invest that kind of money in that. to say you're going to shut down the entire government of the united states of america is criminal. >> what's interesting, too, all of these new laws and the planned parenthood videos as well are being couched as protecting women. so you use this phrase legislative daddies. so they're trying to co-opt feminist rhetoric, say that had is about protecting women. i listened to the hearing for a long time. i did not hear very much about the actual realities that women face themselves. >> and the very difficult choices with later term pregnancy as you've written about. >> planned parenthood. >> i want to say thank you to you. after serena's upset yesterday, is she still the greatest of all time? at&t and directv are now one. bringing television and wireless together. so you'll get your tv from home on the go. which means you can watch movies while you're on th

it anymore ♪ ♪ ♪ attorney general loretta lynch will speak later today hosted by congressman john conyersustice reform and policing in the minority community. now, another town hall from campaign 2016. this one held by g.o.p. presidential candidate and neuro surgeon ben carson in california. it's about 50 minutes. >> this is the epi center of the conservative movement in california. because we believe and we govern by economic freedom, we were the first county to come out of recession. we were the county that stopped the super majority in the state legislature. and we're the county that will start the renaissance in california. that's why every republican candidate come to this county. some come to fund raise and we contribute. but we appreciate those like president reagan who come to speak to the people. samuel adams once said that if a time comes when vain and aspiring men hold the highest seats in the government the nation will depend on its patriots to prevent its ruin. ladies and gentlemen, i'm here to tell you that the current occupant of the white house is one of those men. but our

deborah: i answer to the chief counsel for the democrats more than the -- but conyers was the ranking democrat at the time. he was great. brian: what did you think of close when you saw this? where were you -- deborah: i was really shocked at how political it was all the way down. i had majored in political science as an undergraduate and what i saw and what played out were just so vastly different. i will give you one illustration. we spent a lot of time during the first few weeks reading the tapes of the interviews, and the appropriations for the committee were controlled by the republicans. and so the republican staff had offices and secretaries and, you know, all of the comforts that you would expect to go with this investigation. and we had half as many people as they did and no office, and a secretary, no telephone and we were all outside of the little secure room where the tapes were being held, and it was some night when we are going through this. we were sitting on the floor and we were on our cell phones and one of the members of the committee came by and saw us there and sa

conyers for his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and to the members of the judiciary committee and our friends that are here in the hearing room, as this one-sided hearing title suggests and by the way, i have a file on these unusual titles that come up from time to time. we will likely hear a series of allegations leveled against planned parenthood, one of the most popular organizations for almost 100 years. that it engaged in unlawful conduct based solely on a series of deceptively edited undercover videos. notably the center for medical progress the entity that filmed them that could answer significant and troubling questions about their accuracy and veracity is not here today. in addition, the majority chose not to invite planned parenthood, the target of today's attacks. as we hear from our witnesses, we should keep in mind the following points. to begin with, there is no credible evidence that planned parenthood violated the law. the videos wrongly implied that planned parenthood sells fetal tissue and organs for profit. that

just yesterday representative john conyers, the committee's ranking minority member, called the hearingause only one person on the panel was there in support of planned parenthood. let me play priscilla smith's remarks. >> i'm very reluctant to rely on anything in these videos given the findings of a team of forensic experts that's been submitted to this committee which found the videos have been edited and have no evidentiary value. >> some people could say, yes, investigate, but why have a panel with only one person on the opposing side here? >> there are three different committees that have jurisdiction over this issue that are doing the investigation. and this was just one of those panels. so this is going to be something that's going to go on for several months, i feel. and there will be full, open disclosure. i invite the folks, especially ms. richards, from planned parenthood, to come before the committee, open up the doors, open up the records and say, come in. if there's nothing to hide, why not do that? >> with this moratorium that you have proposed here on the funding, we bot

i know that congressman conyers had to go and vote. he is also pulled in many directions. i want to thank him and his staff for their invitation to this event as well as for setting up this particular panel, and of course the congressman lifetime of service to these issues. he has been in his fight for a long time. a long time. [applause] have many of you. not just here on the panel, on the podium, but out here in the audience. i see a lot of fighters. i see a lot of people who have walked a lot of lines and walked the lot-- i thank you for that as well. [applause] whether you have been in the struggle for years, or whether you are new to it and part of the new and exciting and dynamic young voices that we need to tell us the truth -- i commend you, and i am so so glad to hear from you. your commitment is important. your ideas are important. your energy and passion. now is the time to come together around these important issues. while we have made extraordinary progress since the cbc was founded over 40 years ago, it is clear that we have so much more work to do. in the re

thank >> posted by congressman john conyers with a focus on policing in the minority communities by von c-span2 at 11 a.m. eastern. at tonight's town hall in rochester, new hampshire, candidate donald trump fielded a question from a man who called muslims "a problem in this country." and "we know our president is one." we have a problem in this country and it's called muslims. we know our current president is one. he's not even american. but anyway, we have training where they want to kill us. that's my question. when can we get rid of them? looking at a lot of different things. they are saying bad things are happening and we will look at that and plenty of other things. see all of donald trump's comments of the town hall in rochester in one hour here on c-span or any time at www.c-span.org. >> federal reserve chairman janet yellen announced that interest rates will not increase yet. this is conference is about one hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national ca

. >> on behalf of congressman conyers, we think all of our panelists, and we want to transition to a next panel on protecting the right to vote. >> breaking news from the 2016 -- wisconsinrace governor scott walker is expected to end his presidential campaign. "the new york times" reports that walker concluded he no longer had the path to the nomination. supporter of governor walker's who was briefed on the decision said "the shorter answer is money. he made the decision not to limp iowa." he is holding a news conference in madison, wisconsin at 6:00 p.m. eastern. we will have that and have your comments on c-span. >> tonight on "the two major issues before the commission, protection of personal data and personal privacy. >> when the ftc steps in, all the unregulated space that is evolving very rapidly, where huge innovation is occurring, that impact directly consumers on privacy and information. that is where we use our unfairness and deception authority to make sure consumers are getting accurate information about how their data is being handled. has reclassifyc broadband internet

conyers: mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by 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-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote theeas are 233. the nays are 170. the the bill is passed. -- the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. i write to request to resign my committee assignment on the science, space and technology committee due to my appointment to the house committ

hillary clinton scheduled to be in attendance, right at the table of congressman rangel and conyers.me of this weekend centered on a group of activists who had not yet even been born when the cbc foundation held its first gather. because this year the dominating idea of the conference is quite simply black lives matter. still with me, representative barbara lee and the leadership conference's wade henderson. joining us is efoma ekai, attorney and co-creator of black and brown people vote and dee watki watkins, columnist and english professor, awe are though of "living and dying while black in america." thank you, guys, for being here. talk to me a little bit about how you think black lives matter is starting to transform the political landscape, like the black political agenda. >> first of all, i'm glad i'm here with what i would consider intergenerational allies. that's one thing i think is great about this movement. it's a continuation of activism that has been going on within our community literally since slavery. we've always had individuals that have said we have to step outside

conyers, the gentleman from michigan is recognized for his questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank all of the witnesses for being here today. but i'm going to direct my discussion with ms. smith. you note in your written testimony that section 289-g2a prohibits the transfer of any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration, but that the videos do not explain that the law specifies that valuable consideration does not include reasonable payment reimbursing costs. would an individual watching these videos have any idea that the law excludes the reimbursement of reasonable costs? >> no, i think they would not. and i think they're very deceptive in that regard. so that they juxtapose discussions of money with the text of the ban on valuable consideration. it makes it appear that the money that's being discussed is the, quote, valuable consideration that's banned. there's no mention of the reasonable payments provision in the act and the allowance for reimbursement of reasonable reimbursement -- for reasonable expenses. and i think that's terribly deceptive in the video, yes.

i happen to be supporting the full jobs legislation that my good friend, congressman john conyers, fullmployment, has offered. i have joined. we are not here speaking against jobs. we are speaking for the american people. we are trying to explain that the complexity of the permitting process, whether it is for drilling, whether it is to deal with construction, whether it is to deal with complex environmental issues that have to be addressed, impacting the american people, or for example, dealing with the volkswagen company that saw fit to do the technology to undermine viable rules that the american automobile industry was complying with definitely impacting jobs, i would have hoped we would have had a process of permitting or a process of determining whether the volkswagen company was violating these rules that were here to help the issue of pollution and other issues here. but also undermining the jobs by own american companies. let me just say the jackson lee amendment, in essence, is to suggest that there is a lot of complexity that my friends on the other side of the aisle with the

and representative conyers said that -- quote -- "when good people find themselves congress fronted with acuizations of -- accusations of violating regulations that are vague, address seemingly innocent behavior, and lack adequate mens rea, fundamental constitutional principles of fairness and due process are undermined." here in the senate, there has been a noticeable absence of discussion about mens rea and the need for robust mens rea protections. hathere's been a lost talk lot t sentencing but little talk about mens rea. for the past several months i have been working on legislation to address the deficiencies in mens rea requirements in exist being statutes. my bill would set a default mens rea. it would ensure that courts and creative prosecutors do not take the absence of an express criminal intent standard to mean that the government can convict without any proof of a guilty mind. my bill would also clarify that when a statute identifies a mens rea standard, it does not specify which elements of the crime that standard applies to, the standard identified applies to all elements o

policing and congressional reform at the black caucus conference last week along with congressman john conyers. this is two and a half hours. >>> good morning. i will try one more time. good morning. >> good morning. >> my name is chief goff, and i hope we can find reform. when i was asked to moderate today, i did what i normally do and i went straight to bible study and thought, well, what wisdom can be offered on the issue of race and policing in contemporary america? as is frequently the case with my bible, which is wiser than i, i opened it, went straight to proverbs 4:7. it says, wisdom is the principal thing. therefore, get wisdom. and in all that getting, help me understand. somebody say wisdom. >> wisdom. >> in a moment when black lives matter is not just the call but the response, it is not just the art but the science, i came to meditate on the wisdom of what does it mean, what are we called to do? what is required of us when a person or group of people matters to us? what is required of me that i know you, not that i just understand you, but i get to know the things that influence y