defazio: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 462 -- 6270 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 6270, a bill transportation to establish a pilot program to provide grants related to advanced air mobility infrastructure, and for other pur purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio, and the gentleman from south dakota, mr. johnson, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, the chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee. the speaker pro tempore: mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 6270 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the spe i rise in support of h.r. 6270, legislation spons

defazio, mr. defazio will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. christian mrs. frankel of florida, those members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz, i inform the house that they will vote no on title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois ria? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote no on title 2. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 224, the nays are 195. the title is -- the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 226, the na

defazio: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 7776, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: mr. speaker, this will be the fifth consecutive two-year authorization of the water resources development act since 2014. tradition revised by our former -- revived by our former chair, bill shuster, and i'm grateful for the partnership of sam graves, the subcommittee ranking member -- the committee ranking member, subcommittee grace napolitano, chair, and subcommittee ranking member dave rouzer for all their work in developing this historic water resources development act. this legislation builds on the successes of previous wrda bills, moving projects from feasibility to construction. two-year cycle is critical to addressing future wat

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ended because of a little bit every year end to reinstitute the payroll tax, senator sanders and defazio introduced a bill the other day that would begin collecting payroll tax of 250,000. the larson bill and the senate, van holland and blumenthal have sponsored it $400,000 and eventually the gap will be eliminated because the cap goes up every year but the other thing i wanted to mention, this is very important, we need to wring more revenue into the program. part of it can be t done by adjusting the cap on wages subject to payroll and tote ansr the question, following the senate, you need 60 votes to get anything done in a majority in the house. but why not, things have changed, right? a lot of people receive their earnings, unearned income, not just wages. why don't we at least think about applying payroll tax to the unearned income? things have changed. inin 1980, 92% of wages were covered by payroll tax. now it's about 80% because of growing inequality, income inequality so it's time to make changes. >> how would you feel about unearned income? >> you have to have evaluation. the th

republican from south dakota -- thune, a republican from south dakota, a congressman from california, pete defazio, democrat from oregon, and the committee chair's rankings members who supported this critical legislation. and you did it so quickly. thank you, thank you, thank you for working across the aisle. and for getting this done so quickly. and i've said many times, tackling inflation is my number one priority. inflation, inflation is higher around the world, it doesn't matter. it's much too high here. this bill is going to help bring down inflation, at least marginally. for farmers and businesses all across america. and more than that, the bill is proof of what we can achieve when we work together on common ground. democrats, republicans and independents. farmers, families in this country, businesses, all sizes. we've identified the problem, we identified the solution and we fixed it together. in an overwhelmingly bipartisan way. with a vote of the house, very close, 369-42. [laughter] i remember those good old days, man. [laughter] and no objection in the senate. i hardly remember those da

congressman peter defazio introduced a bill the other day that would begin collecting payroll tax 250,000. the larson bill in the senate that's got senator van hollen and blumenthal have sponsored en it. it has $400,000. and eventually that gap will be eliminated because the goes up every year but the other thing i wanted to mention is we need to bring more revenue into the program. part of it can be done by adjusting the cap on wages subject to payroll and to answer the question you probably need 60 votes to get anything done and a majority in the house . but why not you know, things have changed . a lot of people receive their earnings on unearned income, not just wages. why don't we at least think about applying payroll tax to that unearned income. things have changed. in 1980 92 percent of wages were covered by payroll tax. now it's about 80 percent because of growing inequality , income inequality so it's time to make some changes. >> how would you feel? unearned income? >> you have to have evaluations. so i think that bernie sanders in particular wants to tax unrealized gains. it wa

defazio to pass h.r. 2020. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 275, a bill to provide for online repository tore recipients of disaster assistance. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. this is a five-minute vote. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. jacobs of new york, mr. jacobs will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from california seek recognition sm >> as the member designated by mr. correa, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 2020. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. palazzo of mississippi, mr. day jay lay, mr. brooks and mr. palazzo will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition sm mr. langevin: as the member designated by mr. lynch of massachusetts, i inform the house

democrats criticizing the plan, steny hoyer saying there may not be the votes in the house, pete defazio calling this an insufficient response. this could very well be dead on arrival in congress but this president in an election year needs to be seen as taking a kitchen sink approach, doing just about everything he can to try to deal with this problem while also leveling with the fact that there are no easy fixes here. >> heard maybe this is not the best way to go about this. that being said these are crazy times we're living in to put it mildly, robin. who is to blame for the cost of oil being so oil right now. is it because of president biden's policies or are there other effects going on? >> did you see this back and forth between biden and the ceo of chevron? back and forth, touchy feely. the executives would be ♪ quit playing games with my heart, with my heart ♪ biden in one breath is telling you you have to be patriotic and do more. in the other breath he wants to decarbonize. you can't just say let's flood the market with all of these refined markets. this takes years of visibili

peter defazio, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on h.r. 7777. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. albio sires, mr. donald payne, mrs. bonnie watson coleman, ms. ann kirkpatrick, mr. paul tonko, mrd mr. brendan boyle, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7777. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by representative knicks of new york, i inform the house that the representative will vote yes on h.r. 7777. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 368. the nays are 47. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bush administration is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider -- the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does gentlelady from louisiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i hereby remove myself as a co

we're talking barack obama, nancy pelosi, jennifer granholm, steny hoyer, pete defazio, tom carper. >od reason. this is insignificant and sort of insulting. insignificant for average driver works out seven dollars savings over the three months. that is insulting families will pay extra $2,000 this year. that is crushing for fuel taxes and higher fuel prices. and so, look, it's a gimmick. it really is insulting. the truth of the matter we live in a very cruel biden economy and this isn't going to help families anyway. elizabeth: not even enough to buy gallons of milk. >> no. elizabeth: watch then senator obama, watch nancy pelosi, watch jennifer granholm. watch this. >> we're arguing over a gimmick to save you half a tank of gas. this is not ad were designed to get you through the summer. this is an idea designed to get them through the election. >> the trial is showbiz. do something, there it is but it is not necessarily landing in the pockets of the consumer. how do we help people directly? if you're going to have to pay for it, you don't want it to come out of the trust fund -- >> p

there is no evidence there are enough votes in congress, pete defazio saying this is short sighted andt result in relief for americans. >> thank you very much. >>> the program providing free school meals to all students regardless of family income is set to expire at the end of the month narrowing the call eight fixes for free food for kids. when that program ends, experts warn of a crisis as families already squeezed by inflation have to add more meals to their budget. joining us now, jillian myer director of partnerships and campaign strategy at no kid hungry. thank you for being with us this morning. these last two years many schools provided food even over the summer. what does reality look like for some families if these free meals ends? >> the bottom line is, a crisis is unfolding as we speak. one in six kids live in families that struggle with food insecurity. that was before we started taking into account inflation, rising food costs and, as we just heard, gasoline prices up about $5 across the country. the bottom line is, families are hurting and congress has the power to prev

i also spoke to house transportation chair peter defazio about this.aff right now. we will see, kaitlan, if this means even more congressional hearings for the airlines. >> yeah, you can totally see why they would be having those. people have big questions about why this is so disruptive. pete muntean, thank you for bringing us the latest. >>> and "new day" continues right now. ♪ ♪ >>> good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, june 23rd, i'm john berman. brianna is off. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with us here this morning. happening now, a british filmmaker who documented former president trump and his inner circle for six months before and after the capitol riot is about to meet behind closed doors with the january 6th committee. we have newly obtained footage from the series that he made. it will be released by discovery plus which is owned by cnn's parent company. maggie labor man reports the footage is causing anxiety for the trump family. the filmmaker has handed over his interv

peter defazio did not break into the capitololte. he didn't encourage anyone else to break into the capitol. he wasn't evenk therein th tha he had no idea it was going to happen again. that's beyond dispute. kn and nancy pelosi and liz cheney know that if you really wanted to figure out what happenedh on january six , peter navarro would be the last person you would talk to. instead you'd be talking to reps and various fbi informantsi but finding out i what happened on january 6th and why isth noto the point of the exercise. the point ofin. the exercise is preventing donald trump from tr again. so in the service of that goal, pelosi and liz cheney demanded that peter navarro surrender records of his private conversations with his former boss, president donald trump. and when he refused to do that , congress voted to hold him in contempt and a partisan vote and then merrick garland's justice department filed criminal charges against peter navarro im. this is not the way civilized countries operate just because you control the white ho

defazio, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7211 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 272, h.r. 7211, a bill to amend the robert t. stafford disaster relief and emergency act, review the federal emergency management agency and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. 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: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. tenney of new york, i inform the house that ms. tenney will vote yes on h.r. 7211. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member desi

the kinds of changes congressman john larson has been talking about, bernie sanders, congressman defazio. listen to the people. guest: i would say times have changed, because of covid, and ways one would not have expected. last year, multitrillion dollar bills were being passed. on an incredibly regular basis. a lot of money did not go toward public health. a lot of that money did not do one thing to help people who were seriously ill. there is a real scandal there. my concern is may be we have turned a political corner, they thought deficits do not matter. all other countries of the world will accept dollars, no matter how inflationary we become. it is a serious threat not to the programs, mostly to the economy. if you do not have vigorous economic growth, we are not going to be able to support these programs or anything else. host: to sarah in new york, good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen. mr. richtman, i agree with most of what you are saying. we need a national health care plan. let me speak personally. right now in new york, i am a retired new york city employee. we are fi

defazio, chair. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on appropriations. pursuant to house section 11-b of resolution 188, the house stands adjourned until noon on tuesday, june 21, 2022, for morning hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for >> host: the 1972 watergate break-in happened 50 years ago today, and as washington post chief correspondent dan balz says, its legacy is still with us. in i want to start with an issue that colors often bring up on this program, the idea of trust in government. how do we measure trust in government, and how badly