that's one of the keys of the foreign affairs committee. encourage all members to bear that to n -- sides to bear that in mind. we need not question one another's motives or one another's patriotism. i thank you, madam speaker, and i reserve the balance of my time. the peaker pro tempore: gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, madam speaker. rise in opposition to house concurrent resolution 83. when president obama took down laden, the republican democrats asd with americans to praise the president. democrats ly, today, are incapable of giving this president credit where credit is due, which only emboldens iran. with rprised to be faced this partisan resolution today. we should be standing together, the chairman mentioned, as a nation. nstead, this resolution plays politics with national security. yesterday, the president laid a measured response to ran's ballistic missile attacks. let me be clear. the president is not seeking war with iran. the president has shown, if nything, great restraint reg

had no hearings in the house foreign affairs committee transpired.events there was no foreign affairshis tee markup of legislation. i received text of this hours tion only two before the rules committee a war last night on powers resolution. debating issues of war and peace most important responsibility as members of this ss and, yet, legislation dropped last night consideration ee as required by the war powers resolution. were serious es about article 1, as they say will be a joint resolution with a force of law. concurrent's a house never go tohat will the president's desk. let me translate what that means people american listening today. today we are voting on a press statement.press this is a political statement or a left-wing domestic audience, but they are not the only ones watching, mr. speaker. watching and its proxies re watching and what they see is a divide in america that does not fully support the ability of in chief to respond to imminent threats to americans. chump hill warned against -- churchill warned against appeasement when the dark clouds and the third reich swept

briefing obviously was not given in advance to the leaders of the intelligence committees and foreign affairs committee, the gang of eight as they're called. there was no conferral as is kuft mary. we're working on the house side. i don't believe that's been finalized yet on our end. there's a lack of information, but that is kind of pattern and practice with this administration. it's not conferring with congress, not telling congressional leaders what's

the house foreign affairs committee, your committee, went get for tweet, mirroring the president, thisar powers reside in the congress, under the united states constitution and you should read the war powers act and you're not a dictator. what do you think of this tweet for tweet between the president and leadership of the house foreign affairs committee? >> i've been disappointed in the leadership of the house foreign affairs committee because it's become extremely partisan. defending what the president's doing or opposing it doesn't have to be based on the politics or whether you like the president. as you know, i was on your show many times under president obama, defending his actions in a number of things. the president and his tweets, i get it makes the president uncomfortable. i'm critical of domestic policy tweets that make me uncomfortable. those aren't designed to make the american people comfortable or uncomfortable. they're designed to make the iranian comfort uncomfortable. if they make us uncomfortable, it makes them uncomfortable and make they will think twice before reac

there as our allies and partners know about what can head of the foreign affairs committee thank you very much our here's a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. house of representatives has voted to limit president trumps ability to gauge in the military conflict against iran the chamber voted almost completely along party lines to pass the resolution which would only become binding if it is passed by the senate ordered the killing of iranian general cost them sort of money last week with out congressional approval. military officials in mali say $25.00 soldiers were killed when heavily armed assailants at the base in nis air more than 60 suspected terrorists also reportedly died in the attack which happened close to the border with mali. at least 20 people the majority of them soldiers have reportedly been killed in a militant attack in northeastern nigeria it's in the town of mangano also sparked a fire that left hundreds of already displaced people almost an extremist group linked to the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. on

engel of the foreign affairs committee, and chairman of the ways and means committee. we thank them for all of their difficult work. we honor our darling elijah cummings, who said one day when we are dancing with the angels, what will we say about what we did at this difficult time in our country's history? i am proud mr. nadler and mr. schiff are part of our managers. i want to matted -- acknowledge our other managers who are with us. i should not say freshman. they have been here one year. things.shed great crow ofman jason colorado. congresswoman val demings of the state of florida. congresswoman garcia of texas. are we all here? where is hakeem? distinguished chair of our caucus, hakeem jeffries of new york. is that everybody? and zoe lofgren. this is her third impeachment. for the nixon impeachment, she was a staffer for a judiciary committee member, don edwards of california. she was a member of the judiciary committee on the clinton impeachment. and now a member of the judiciary, the house administration which oversees elections, and a manager. with that, i than

he's a member of the foreign affairs committee.e're going to hit on, if that's already. let's start with impeachment. we've got a staring contest right now between the speaker and majority leader. how long can this last? >> i think it needs to go as far as it needs to go so the american people feel konch deco that the process is fair and honest and it's not a sham, it's not a kangaroo court, and this gives the senate the exclusive power of the trial. so this must be a fair and honest process. i think that's what the american people want. i think both mcconnell and leader schumer should sit down and work out of the rules of the game and they should be fair and equitable. i think that's what we're waiting for. >> witnesses seems to be one of the big holdups, at least from the democratic side. we've seen some republicans open to the idea, susan collins and some others. i wonder if you would be comfortable that the agreement was made that we'll bring witnesses in but we'll do closed door depositions, similar to what was done during the

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chairman eliot engel of the foreign affairs committee, and richey neil, chairman of the ways and means committee. we thank them for all of their difficult work, and we honor our darling elijah cummings who said when one day we are dancing with the angels, what would we say about what we did at this difficult time in our country's history? and then i'm very proud that mr. nadler and mr. schiff are part of our managers. but i want to acknowledge our other managers with us. a freshman member -- but i shouldn't say freshman. they've been here one year, accomplished great things. congressman jason crow of colorado, congresswoman value -- val demings of the state of florida, congresswoman garcia of texas -- are we all here? where are we? where's hakeem? hakeem, distinguished chair of our caucus, hakeem jeffries of new york. is that everybody? and zoe lofgren. this is zoe's third impeachment. she was for the nixon impeachment she was a staffer , for a judiciary committee member, don edwards of california. she was member of judiciary committee during the clinton impeachment, in her own right m

had no hearings in the house foreign affairs committee transpired.events there was no foreign affairshis tee markup of legislation. i received text of this hours tion only two before the rules committee a war last night on powers resolution. debating issues of war and peace most important responsibility as members of this ss and, yet, legislation dropped last night consideration ee as required by the war powers resolution. were serious es about article 1, as they say will be a joint resolution with a force of law. concurrent's a house never go tohat will the president's desk. let me translate what that means people american listening today. today we are voting on a press statement.press this is a political statement or a left-wing domestic audience, but they are not the only ones watching, mr. speaker. watching and its proxies re watching and what they see is a divide in america that does not fully support the ability of in chief to respond to imminent threats to americans. chump hill warned against -- churchill warned against appeasement when the dark clouds and the third reich swept

scalise that the foreign affairs committee should be having hearings on this. we have tried to get the discriminate to -- secretary of state to come. i'm still hopeful he's coming. but it's a little hard to hold hearings if you don't get the administration with us to come to the hearings. we are trying. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from colorado, mr. neguse. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for one minute. mr. neguse: thank you madam speaker. i rise today in support of my good friend and colleague's commonsense measure and i want to thank representative lee for her leadership and her moral courage. i also would just say we have heard a lot with respect to objections around the process long before i got here the representative from california, representative lee, as i understand it, secured a similar amendment in her appropriations bill a few years ago. in the dead of night. the prior speaker of the house struck that amendment out of the bill. i didn't hear many process objections at that time from so many of my colle

i'd first like to submit to the an exchangel record of letters between the chair of the foreign affairs committee and the chair of the committee judiciary on h.r. 4331. withoutker pro tempore: objection. mr. phillips: madam speaker, i want to start by thanking chairman mcgovern along with mr. smith, mr. suozzi, and mr. meadows for authorizing this the tant bill to support preservation of tibetan culture and faith as well as the environment of the tibetan is vital, not just to the tibetan people, but himalayan ecosystem. i want to thank speaker pelosi, tireless leader tibetan.ople of chamber nsured this defends its values. existing updates the legislation from 2002 to make sure this keeps up with the challenges facing tibet today. legislation comes at a critical time for the tibetan people as they seek to preserve heir cultural and religious identities. the chinese government has repeatedly asserted it has a ofe to play in the selection the next dalai lama. the is analogous to government of italy to say they who the terally decide be. pope will this bill sends a very clear message to chinese offic

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>> so i sit on the foreign affairs committee and the agriculture committee, and for me, broad band technology is pretty much a place where both of those committees touch. so when we're looking towards the future of precision agriculture or technologies and precision agriculture tools that are allowing our farmers and producers to monitor their crops, to ensure the safety and security of their animals, particularly our dairies, to use fertilizer, dependent on rainfall, depend ent on other triggers, the use of 5g technology as we expect it to continue to develop will be incredibly important. notably within many of our rural communities that could be benefitting from precision agriculture technologies, there's no internet. it is not an issue of 5g technology. it is an issue of lack of access completely, so i have been very focused on access to broad band and access to internet issues within the agriculture sector, within our rural communities, and that's part of my portfolio and focus on the ag committee, and then separately my work on the foreign affairs committee and my background as an intell

there as our allies and partners know about what can head of the foreign affairs committee of bonus talk thank you very much. here. everything is just so. sorry sir. but our off by the hot process that led to the head always you can rebuild all recycle all of that it's just stuff. you know what did they do you to deceive what we've done to them what did they do they were here 1st this is their land this is not l.a. and. and we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. australia is burning that is a statement about one of the country's worst fire seasons on record but it utterly fails to convey the unprecedented dimensions of death and destruction i want to show you an image from nasa which will give you maybe an idea of just how massive the wildfire disaster has become this is the red dots show fires today if we were to go back 7 days ago there would be even more 15000000 acres of australia have burned in for our u.s. viewers that's roughly the size of west virginia it's 8 times larger than the worst ever wildfires in california which happened just 2 years ago and on new year

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leave that has shown a rift between the president and his opponents in congress the house foreign affairs committee responded to that tweet by saying this media post will serve as a reminder that war powers reside within the congress under the united states constitution and that you should read the war powers act and that you are not a dictator that gives you an idea of how contentious this is here in the united states. a number of democrats feel that the president went too far president obama president george w. bush both had the opportunity to assassinate saloni and decided not to specifically because they were worried about launching a major retaliation the crew would lead to a hot war between the u.s. and iran president trump while at mar a lago was given many options and by a number of reports surprise the military in the pentagon by saying that he wanted to exercise the most extreme option and that was to assassinate so that has really led to a backlash here in the united states his administration has informed congress of what the reasons were but he did so in a purely classified format so th

member of the foreign affairs committee in the house.o putting on that hat here, sir, what do you make of this news that just came in at the top of the hour? the president saying we're going to hit back harder than the 35 targets that has been mentioned by the iranian government. i'm going to hit 52. >> this is an escalation of the threats. obviously, very serious. we've had some inroad into iran. there was dissidents in iran that were protesting in the street. the killing of general soleimani now has brought iran together. and we were making some headway in iraq with some moderate forces that were supportive of the u.s. and, of course, iran now has a bigger footing, a steady footing in there as we also killed one of the leaders of the militia groups. muhandis. so this is critical and we must have a clear, cool head about this. we cannot march into war. americans don't want another war. war is not only bad and it puts our men and women in the armed forces in dire straights and very dangerous situations. but it also hurts us here economic

we're going to talk to the chair of the house foreign affairs committee coming up next. oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board... and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing the risk on this position. you two are all set. choose the app that fits your investing style. ♪ doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> welcome back. democrats in congress are demanding more information to back up the president's claims that he took out soleimani because of an imminent attack on american lives. they're also pressing the administration for its strategy amid the escalating tensions with iran. joining me now here in studio, one of the democrats leading the call for more information and a coherent strategy from the administration, new york democratic congressman elliot ingel. congressman, thank you for being here. have you

. >> chad of fox news tweeting a from house foreign affairs committee eliot engel today. i am disappointed and frustrated secretary pompeo will not appear before the committee tomorrow. new passing day raises questions about the strike that killed general soleimani. as there really imminent threat? and a story from "roll call" this afternoon, congressman isn't backing down and is running for re-election as an independent. ongressman amash has been mentioned as a possible impeachment manager. the u.s. house is back at the on the he hour and agenda this afternoon, a number of veterans' and financial bills.s votes expected at 6:30 eastern. watch the house live when they at 2:00 p.m. eastern. also coming up this afternoon, the transportation research on the lds a discussion administration's 2020 transportation and infrastructure policy priorities. you can watch that live at 3:45 eastern on c-span3. at c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. joining us from new , antoine halff. senior research scholar at columbia university center on global energy policy. pri

is chief political editor asked the head of germany's parliamentary foreign affairs committee conservative nor batch britain whether europe should continue to stick to that iran nuclear deal despite demands from president trump to accept that the deal is dead. absolutely and as long as there is no better option to make sure that iran does not develop nuclear weapons i think we should stick to that of course we have to see and we have to face the facts that the u.s. has withdrawn from this treaty and by this economically has massively damaged the effectivity of the agreement so we should stick to that perhaps we should embrace his proposal to broaden the negotiation and the relationship to iran not only to focus just on the nuclear aspect but to include for the regional aspects in order to create a broader arrangement for regional stability i think we should we should embrace and appreciate this approach and i think there the role for the europeans to make this possible is absolutely vital and crucial now europe keeps talking about broadening this iran nuclear deal trump wants a new deal wh

eliot engel is the chairman of house foreign affairs committee and he indicates that congress should. >> i think if it's not this week, it will be soon. i do think the strike did create some uncertainty but, congress has to do what congress has to do. part of the frustration i have had is it congress is an equal branch of government, a coequal branch of government and has never been treated that way. >> now should congress be debating this at this time of hostilities? i ask that of jason crow. he is from colorado. >> it's way past time after 19 years of >> it is way past time. we have spent over $4 trillion executing these wars. it's time we have a national conversation about what center national interests and congress needs to be leading that discussion. >> house majority leader steny hoyer said this morning that the resolution should be on the floor "sooner rather than later." >> trace: what is the problem lawmakers i have had with the old authorization? >> they don't want something that's open-ended. they are using resolutions from 2001 and 2002. they want something very narrow an

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on theanberger: i sit foreign affairs committee and agriculture committee. and for me, broadband technology is a place where both committees touch. so when we are looking at the future of precision agricultural technologies and precision agricultural tools that allow our farmers and producers to monitor their crops, to ensure the security of their animals, particularly our dairies, to use fertilizer dependent on rainfall, the pendant on other triggers, the use of 5g technology will be incredibly important. many of our rural communities that could be benefiting from precision agricultural technology have no internet. it is an issue of lack of access completely. so i have a focus on access to broadband and internet issues within the agricultural sector in our rural communities. that is part of my portfolio and focus on the agricultural committee. my work on the foreign services committee, my background is as an intelligence officer, former c.i.a. officer. the recognition of the challenges or threats that come from a foreign country dominating technological dev

both the judiciary committee, the government reform committee, and in the intel committee, foreign affairs committee, financial services committee, government reform committee. i think that's -- i mentioned that once before. so, i would hope that would happen in the senate. if you want to know the truth, mr. speaker, that's what ought to happen. but if it is just presenting information that is not relevant in this trial, i.e. i did a good job on the economy, i.e. i did a good job on foreign policy, i.e. i did a good job in protecting our borders, that's the president's argument in a political sense, i understand that. but that's not legally relevant information as to whether or not he abused his power. in particular, in the phone call with the ukrainians in which he with held money appropriated by the congress of the united states -- withheld money appropriated by the congress of the united states to protect, help protect an ally, ukraine, against incursion by mr. putin. i'm sure mr. putin was very pleased that that money did not go to mr. zelensky and the ukrainian forces. we think that was an abus

. >>> i'm joined by congressman gerry connolly, a member of the oversight and the foreign affairs committeeich led the house impeachment investigation. >> great to be with you, geoff. >> is it your expectation that tomorrow after the house speaker huddles with you and other democrats she will then move that floor over to the house managers and then this thing kicks over to the senate? >> i think that's the plan. >> in terms of timing, tomorrow or wednesday? >> i don't know. she'll let us know that tomorrow in the caucus meeting but i think it's on a fast track. >> what did the democrats think of holding the articles of impeachment for the last two or three weeks? >> i think there were two ideas behind that. one was to allow mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer the leaders in the senate to agree to a set of rules of procedure as their predecessors did during the clinton administration. unfortunately that failed because mitch mcconnell has no intention of doing anything on the bipartisan basis apparently with respect to at least this subject. and secondly, it was to shed some light on the fact t

scalise that the foreign affairs committee should be having hearings on this. we have tried to get the discriminate to -- secretary of state to come. i'm still hopeful he's coming. but it's a little hard to hold hearings if you don't get the administration with us to come to the hearings. we are trying. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from colorado, mr. neguse. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for one minute. mr. neguse: thank you madam speaker. i rise today in support of my good friend and colleague's commonsense measure and i want to thank representative lee for her leadership and her moral courage. i also would just say we have heard a lot with respect to objections around the process long before i got here the representative from california, representative lee, as i understand it, secured a similar amendment in her appropriations bill a few years ago. in the dead of night. the prior speaker of the house struck that amendment out of the bill. i didn't hear many process objections at that time from so many of my colle

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is representative ted guild hall avril republican of the third district to member of the foreign affairs committee. what did you learn from the briefing on iran? >> guest: is probably one of the best briefings we have had. i've gone to a lot of in the amount of people and for the link they did and there was a lot of clarification of what they did and how they justified it. i can't go into details. it was classified but i felt better afterwards and this the whole thing is we don't want a war with iran. it was imminent that things were going to happen and it was better for america to act in president trump did the right thing. >> host: is part of eminent threat can you share part of what you learn to make that case? >> guest: i know they have been collecting intelligence for quite a while. the better part part of the year and was getting to a point where was eminent within a month of january. posted can you clarify further than that? >> guest: i do want to go any further than that, no with the things that were said. i can't go any further than that but i feel comfortable with the emphasis i was put

sopko, special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction testified before the house foreign affairs committee, outlining the findings and recommendations of recent agency reports, focusing on lessons learned from u.s. reconstruction efforts in afghanistan.

. >>> we will continue live coverage now at a house foreign affairs committee hearing where john sopko, special investigator is answering questions about the success in the war in afghanistan. >> i thought it was to stop terror threats from attacking the homeland. maybe we get mission creep.

military force to take us to war with around congressman ami bera who sits on the house foreign affairs committee says the us is next move is unclear does put us in a precarious position i mean i would take that rain and threats of retaliation seriously the risk of doing nothing was enormous both secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump say the attack that killed general soleimani was justified. they say that he was planning imminent attacks on americans overseas and our allies that was the time. >>to take this action so that we could disrupt this plot john garamendi serves on the house armed services committee he says congress was left in the dark on the decision to kill so the money certainly do not wan walk or is there >>he says most lawmakers want to avoid escalating violence. we have specifically taking steps to limit that i don't think it is it's for it tactics was there and republican doug lamalfa favors outreach to help mobilize iranian citizens unhappy with their country's leaders but he hasn't ruled out supporting military action was 10 her date and that will be very conscious

to go in and we will discuss this tomorrow in the foreign affairs committee of the dr witness talk and the defenses committee of the doj when this talk in extra meetings we arranged together with our 2 ministers what are you going to do just in terms of the u.s. president trying to say he wants more nato in the middle east and today he also said that the j.c.b. away the iran nuclear deal he now wants that once and for all to be history he's asking even more almost impossible things from the europeans isn't it. unfortunately. the president is believing in a strategy of increasing pressure on iran where i think and also a lot of europeans infected will not be and might not be successful because what we need is a consensus between the 5 permanent members of the security council also including russia and china that strategy on the strategy. against iran a question and iran. capabilities to have a bomb a nuclear bomb and this is only possible on negotiations and not. increasing pressure because russia will never accept that iran is doing something like a particular copper to copulation agai

on september 5th the chairman and the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee sent a joint letter to mulvaney and omb director russell vot. that letter also expressed deep concern about the continuing hold on the military aid. the same day senators murphy and johnson visited kiev and met with president zelensky along with ambassador taylor. >> on september 5th i accompanied senators johnson and murphy during their visit to met w zelensky his first question to the senators was about the withheld security assistance. my recollection of the meeting is that both sens that sup brt for ukraine in washington was ukraine's most important strategic asset and that president zelensky should not jeopardize that bipartisan support by getting drawn in to u.s. domestic politics. i had been making and continue to make this point to all of my official ukrainian contacts but the odd push to make president zelensky publicly commit to investigations of burisma and alleged interference in the 2016 election showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by the regular e

cooper testified and was informed, quote, the ukrainian embassy in house foreign affairs committee were asking about the military aid. and the hill knows about the situation to an extent, and so does the ukrainian embassy. all of this shows people were starting to get very worried. again, this amendment for the subpoena to the dod would compel the production of these important documents. but again, there is more. dod documents would also reveal key facts about what happened july 25, after omb directed at dod to, quote, hold off on any additional dod obligations for the assistance to ukraine. how did the dod officials react to omb's directive to keep this order i? david dod officials raised concerns about the modality of the hold, concerns they would eventually vocally articulate to omb in august did the dod officials here from the american business ibusinesses that were d to provide equipment from ukraine? with a informed o they informedd to undermine american jobs? answers to those questions may be found in dod e-mails, e-mails that we could all see if you issue the subpoena. earlier i

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host: the secretary of state, mike pompeo, will testify before the foreign affairs committee tomorrowt 10 a.m. eastern time on c-span3. you can also download the free radio app to listen along. what do you expect there, anita? guest: they are going to be trying to pin down on what exactly they knew. the president said this was imminent. was it? days, weeks, months? i think that is the question. everyone knows this person was a bad person. responsible for a lot of death. was there credible threat and was imminent? host: i went to show our viewers, pompeo had a briefing friday. he was asked his definition of imminent. >> this was going to happen. american lives were at risk. we would have been negligent as the chairman had we not recommended that he take this action. he made the right call. america is safer as a result. if asked about that tomorrow, will he be asked? guest: yes. particularly the to statement about the four embassies. he is asked to respond to the conflicting statements. he is going to be asked what he did not come to capitol hill and brief numbers of congress before han