garamendi. mr. garamendi: next flood season and complete a 0-mile project. so we appreciate your effort on that. we'll move that along and it has been a very good process in which the corps working with the local entities has been abling o move in a very rapid way and mariesville projects. my appreciation and thanks to you and the district as well as headquarters. the 204 authority fits right into this so here we go. maybe we can write legislation with more clarity and not run into the problem we have had here. guess that's our problem. this is addressed to mr. graves and to the chairman and ranking member of the committee, wrda is in process. the conference committee is moving along. i would like to draw the attention of the committee and certainly to the conferees to the necessity of maintaining section 310 of the house bill. i don't know, the senate is sometimes to deal with, but section 310 addresses the three rivers levee improvement authority and last three miles of the project on the yuba river at no cost to the federal government. and finally, i know

garamendi is implying exactly that.ow is that different or don't like anything george wallace has said? it's not, except this filth is everywhere so you hardly notice it. the last thing this country needs right now is a racial division. democrats are pushing it anyway. they are pushing allegations that have literally nothing to do with race. split the country into tiny warring groups is useful for them. it helps them contain their power, so they are happy to do it. men against women, black against white, divide and conquer. whatever it takes. in the end, it's unlikely that we'll ever know conclusively what happened between brett kavanaugh and christine ford 36 years ago, if anything at all. but it's crystal clear what's happening right now: it's a power grab. it's hurting the country, destroying our centuries old traditions of justice and empowering and demagogues. we ought to shut it down right now. and yet, this is late breaking news, before air breaking time, this may go on and on. republicans on the health and they

congressman garamendi, i want to thank you for being here tonight. americans deserve a congress and a president that gives them a better deal and stands up for the true value of hard work, for the people, always for the people, especially when labor day has been celebrated. for the 124th time in our nation's history. over a century and nearly a quarter. thank you so much and i yield back. mr. garamendi: ms. kaptur, thank you so much. 124 labor days. working men and women of america. we should keep that in mind and certainly i know you will and i and i'm sure my colleagues, at least on the democratic side of the aisle will also. i'm going to add once again with f.d.r., the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. mr. speaker, i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2017, the gentlewoman from california, mrs. walters is recognized for 60 minutes as t

garamendi. mr. garamendi: there is another issue at hand. natural gas is a strategic national asset. both sides would agree to that. a strategic national asset. soon there will be benefits to certain parts of this nation that happen to have shale gas available. it will be a benefit to the petroleum industry and those that can extract natural gas. all good. why don't we see this strategic national asset to support another strategic national asset, our maritime industry? it used to be when the north slope of alaska opened up that all of that oil that was exported from alaska had to be on american ships with american sailors. over the years that disappeared. we have an opportunity right here with this piece of legislation to really enhance the benefit that comes from this strategic national asset. i'm all for the caribbean. good for them. good for us. but what if that was shipped on american ships, building american ship yards by american workers and the steel was american steel? what if we made it in america? what if we used this natural gas e

garamendi in a moment. i would like to yield to mr. kaufman from colorado who has been a tenacious promoter of human rights in ethiopia and as the ranking member pointed out, when we brought this up in april, prime minister abiy saturday assumed office. we introduced this in february february 2017. we went through some rewrites because things are changing on the ground and frankly we gave to his government a prescriptive list of what the u.s. congress, the house of representatives expected would have been and it has been very telling how close many of the things on a bipartisan basis we recommended starting with the release of political prisoners have happened. we hope the resolution has made them different and as i said earlier, it does go back to 2005 after he visited with president malice and was profoundly disappointed with this human rights abuses, which was legion at the time and introduced the human rights bill at that point towards ethiopia. thank you, ms. bass. we worked very closely on this in the trip i think was a great suc

garamendi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general, thank you very much for all the work that you're doing and congratulations and condolences in your new job. you're going to have your hands full. you've been very, very helpful to me and the sutter basin issue. i think i was -- i suppose you had been in your job not too long before i had the opportunity to talk to you about it. you've been very creative and i very much appreciate that. we're down to the last wire of this and if you could turn your attention to an integrated -- vertically integrated process, i think we can get this thing done for the next flood season and complete a 40-mile project in the sutter basin. so i really appreciate your effort on that. so we will move that along and it's been a very good process in which the corps are working with the local entities has been able to successfully move in a very happened way. also the marriesville project, two important projects in my area. my appreciation and thanks to you and to the district as well as headquarters h

garamendi from northern california who's here and in doublespeak in a minute. i was particularly happy to have him come here because he lived in ethiopia and was a member of the peace corps many years and all those years spent has maintained contact with the village in which he served. thank you any of that time. >> i would like to yield to mr. kaufman from colorado who has been a tenacious promoter of human rights in ethiopia and is the ranking member pointed out, we brought this up in april, prime minister abiy had heard he assumedd office. we introduced this in 2017. february 2017 we went through some rewrites because things are changing on the ground and frankly we gave a prescriptive list of what the u.s. congress, the house of representatives expected would have been and it has been very telling just how close many of the things on a bipartisanis basis we had recommended starting with two of these political prisoners, so we hope the resolution has made someti difference and as i said earlier it does go back to 2005 after he visited with president malice w

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garamendi. ? once again, mr. chairman, thank you for the privilege of joining your subcommittee for this hearing. the chairman of the full committee, mr. royce, thank you for your many years of attention to africa and ethiopia in that process and mr. kaufman, the same. just a couple of things and i'm on the arms services committee and the new national defense strategy emphasizes russia and china. the result of that apparently is a movement by the department of defense to move away from africa and particularly this hill and there is violent, extreme organizations. i draw that to the attention of this committee, and the interrelationship between the work of this committee and the arms services committees with regard to the role of the department of defense and the state department in africa deserves our attention. of specific interest beyond that is some of the questions that have arisen with regard to the current famine, drought that's occurring on the eastern portions of ethiopia and probably going to move beyond

here to weigh in with california congress met, john garamendi. have you. >> thank you.predicting a blue wave? >> we will see maybe five or six seats in california that are open that we could win. across the nation, we will see what happens over the next 50 days. they will be events that will be some heavy campaigning by the president. and certainly, by democratic candidates. but all elections are local so how they stack up against each other? we are quite pleased with candidates that we have and issues that we want to put forward. mike: what about the argument, sir, that the economy strong and whatever happened to people voting based on their pocketbooks or their wallets? >> they will. they will in fact vote based upon their pocketbooks. their pocketbooks have not improved over the last 40 years. basically, the middle class have been stalled out for the last 40 years. in particular, the last 67 years. inflation is taken away whatever wage gains or have been by the middle-class working families. that is one of the issues that we definitely want to