general national congress also are not represented in that conference so the idea of representation here is a key word today and also the idea of elections parliamentary and presidential elections many people believe that it could be the solution to the ongoing crisis in libya or at least part of the solution but it is not new france is inviting those legal rival politicians to come to a consensus to end the libyan crisis but the idea of elections is not new it was suggested by the u.n. envoy to the get a sense at the security council in september last year. in terms of an action plan submitted by of us but they're conducting election is by the end of this year it could be part of the solution but many people here and many keep key players say that it cannot be conducted in libya before adopting the new draft constitution and that's one of the of the reasons why the high state council was reluctant to attend today's conference the high state council yesterday put four of four conditions to move forward to this meeting among these points. is. adopting the constitution the new draft a cons

wanted to take the country he articulated it as he stoodz on the stage national people congress when he was first appointed general secretary that idea of the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation he set out his, you know, primary -- it policy initiative which was the anticorruption campaign right from the outset. you know he said if corruption is not addressed it to be death of the communist party and death of the chinese state -- what is it have a point? >> maybe not the death of the chinese state but corruption it was corroding the legitimacy of the communist party, the party had really become nothing much more than a steppingstone for personal political and economic advancement. and i think he was right to undertake the kind of very aggressive and corruption campaign that we have seen and it has been five years with and every year he's arrested more people than the year before. last year 570,000 officials were arrested with a 99% successful prosecution rate as you might imagine. [laughter] >> impressive legal training. the -- to what extent does all of this represent not so much a departure but more a retur

of where he wanted to take the country as he stood on the stage of the national people's congress when he was first appointed general secretary. the idea of the great revolution. he set out his primary policy initiative which was the anticorruption campaign right from the outset. he said that corruption is not addressed, this could be the death of the communist party and the chinese state. >> did he have a point? >> absolutely maybe not the death of the chinese state, but it was corroding the legitimacy of the party. the party had become nothing much more than a steppingstone for personal, political and economic advancement. it had been five years with more people than before, 570,000 officials were arrested with 99% successful prosecution rate as you might imagine. >> impressive legal training. >> to what extent does all of this represent not so much a departure but returned to the. what is this a return to the previous combination. many of the things that xi jinping had been doing domestically had long lineage throughout the chinese history. dates back a century chinese were very concerned about corruption. i thin

he went out and got a national team who would agree with him and the guy who has been quiet on this is general mattis, secretary mattis who told the congress wouldn't be in a country's national urinterest to depart fm this agreement. >> i would agree with david. he brought in these people because he's comfortable with them and they agree with him and that is the kind of people he's looking for -- and to bring into the white house. he doesn't want anyone who disagrees with him. >> he's comfortable with john bolton, his new national security adviser and mike pompeo. stick around. more breaking news we'll following. we'll be right back. this scientist doesn't believe in luck. she believes in research. it can take more than 10 years to develop a single medication. and only 1 in 10,000 ever make it to market. but what if ai could find connections faster. to help this researcher discover new treatments. that's why she's working with watson. it's a smart way to find new hope, which really can't wait. ♪ ♪ so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money b

general of the united states in contempt of congress. explain how they are slow walking and using redakzs in the name of national court and how they are unwilling to answer congress' subpeona and how that is the constitutional role of congress. >> thank you, sean. you don't have enough time inferred to get to all of the stone walling that the doy and fbi did in our investigation. maybe pick a few in the top. last week after six weeks, we discovered that first time american people know that james comey testified before congress that he was not, that the fbi agents that intruped flynn was not lying. took six weeks to get rid of those redackition. and fusion gps and documents pertinent with that fight. and the fact that we were not able to figure out they knew that the clinton campaign and democratic national community paid for the dirt. >> sean: how long. we didn't find out for a year later. >> we believe they knew it from the beginning. >> sean: they knew clinton paid for it when they made the fisa claim. and citing unverified russian and did they lie to a fisa judge in >> they know things and they know things that aren't true like the fact that

general jackson flatly refused the request. he did not compromise at all. jackson explained that disclosing investigative reports would harm the national interest in a number of different ways. when attorney general jackson responded to congress in 1941, he referenced case law, statements by prior presidents and letters from six attorneys general. jackson explained that declining to open the fbi files to review by congressional members and staff is, and i quote, an unpleasant duty. he was right about that. but it was in keeping with the separation of powers embodied in our constitutional system. >> deputy attorney general rod rosenstein speaking today. i know there's -- i know there's a lot of hangover news today about the fact that rudy giuliani is now president trump's new lawyer and he said a lot of cray cray stuff two nights ago that seemed to implicate the president in a lot of new stuff the president was trying avoid being implicated in and now the president said rude ry didn't mean it and he doesn't know and rudy put out a statement saying i didn't mean it in the way you thought i meant, it i meant it in a good way. i know there's been a lot of hangover discussion today about exactly which particular lie was operative

karnataka were polling a challenge from the congress party now the result cements prime minister modise struck stature as a national leader ahead of generalelections next year modi was seeking a second term in two thousand and nineteen was a star campaigner in the state he went up against his rival congress president raul gandhi who led the campaign for his party now the battleground state of karnataka is home to india's tech the loss here leaves the congress in power in only three of india's twenty nine states let's get more on the story now with india correspondent sagna found the car she joins us from delhi where she is following the story for us by phone or good to see you now where does this a leave the opposition congress ahead of national elections next year. well to me i think to these result is frankly nothing short of a disaster for india's grand old party which has ruled the country for much of its independent history now the congress party as you mentioned is in power in just three of india's twenty nine states though i have to say that reports in the indian media suggest that the congress party could stitch up the deal with t

when it comes to the justice department national security side of things in general, when it comes to responding to questions from congressn use this as an excuse not to give them what congressional oversight demands and, frankly requires, and is constitutionally allowed to get. i think that's always been frustrating for lawmakers. what's different is this is run by congress and a congress furious with different types of issues, and i think winking and nodding as to why they're really going after these documents. the idea that the justice department, the intel community in general is fighting about this disclosure is the oldest in time at this point. it's kind of the underlying, what is the actual intent for these documents, and more importanting important iin ining --ly, what really want these documents for? >> these representatives you're most likely to see on another cable network talking back to the president. mark meadows says, it's time to hold the doj responsible for congress. we can brief you on the parameters, we can't tell you everything in the middle of an investigation. call us in six months, call us in a year

national security division. we appreciate your perspective and your expertise. >> thank you. >> harris: devin nunes says he is going to urge lawmakers to hold attorney general jeff sessions in contempt of congress for failing to hand over classified information on the russia investigation. but the justice department says they need to protect our national security. do they have a point? or are they stonewalling? and days ahead of president trump's expected decision on whether to abandon the iran nuclear deal, the u.k. top diplomat is in washington for talks with the administration. what will the president decide to do? stay close. prepare for your demise, mr. billingsley! do your worst, doctor. i will. but first, a little presentation. hijacking earth's geothermal energy supply. phase 1. choosing the right drill bit. as long as evil villains reveal their plans, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. with safelite's exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer

congress held the last attorney general in contempt of congress, so this is nothing new. >> jake, matt, guys, thank you very much. >>> and joining me now is david france, joining me from nationaliew, and jennifer rogers, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern driktd istrictw york, she's also director of the columbia law school advancement of public integrity. jennifer, is the doj still independent? >> i think so, yes, but we're getting closer and closer to that line. i think rosenstein and chris wray are doing their best to hold the line, and there's a request that is so outrageous that they have to refuse it and get fired or resign. >> is it appropriate for the aig to be looking into this? >> igs looking into a whole range of conduct and they often take requests from congress, referrals are congress, so this one came through the president kind of behalf of congress, but it's still not unusual for congress to say anything in the purview of what department of justice folks are doing are within the igs jurisdiction. >> so this confidential source who said there were spies embedded in the trump campaign, what does that do for the doj's ability to cultivate sources? >> it

general have to move this process forward? and who gets to decide which documents are redacted? >> so the redaction is done those in charge of protecting national security but that said the fact is congresshas subpoena power and also have impeachment power and if exercises that power before now with other officials including the now former director of irs because the point would have been made but the fact is they can hold people in contempt and then follow that up. with the ultimate power. there is always a certain amount of friction with the legislature and the executive. but that is worked out in a commonsense way no reason why it shouldn't be in this case. i don't get that at all. there is a finite number of documents and finite reasons to withhold them. you can list those with national security or executive privilege or simply turn over. and to be on the business end of subpoenas in my time first come i want to add my thanks to your comments from a very high up a few part of what appears to be driving us a heart is based on the information people receive almost all of which in the political world is filtered through the media. not just the news organizations but also hollywood et ce

generating station. that and many other plants throughout the nation have closed their doors in decades. yet congress has yet to agree on how to safely store that waste. what's really important, is we must store the waste, but while we develop nuke nuclear energy technologies -- new nuclear energy technologies that are capable of producing less of their own waste and consume the waste. i reminded secretary of energy of that yesterday. in the meantime, until that technology -- it is sinful that we have not developed that technology which we're capable of that could eat this waste. until we do, having safe storage at yucca mountain makes all the sense to me. and is safe for my constituents. thank you, mr. shimkus. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from illinois reserves. gentleman from new york. mr. tonko: i continue to reserve. the chair: reserves. gentleman from illinois. mr. shimkus: mr. chairman, i recognize for one minute the gentleman from georgia, mr. allen. the chair: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. allen: mr. speaker, i rise today in suppor

general of the united states in contempt of congress. explain how they have been slow-walking, using redactions in the name of national security, the -- thaturn out not to be true and how they have been unwilling to answer congress' subpoena and how it is the constitutional role of congress. >> thank you, sean. first, you don't have enough time left on the show for me to get to all of the stonewalling that d.o.j. and the f.b.i. have done throughout our investigation. let's pick a few at the top. just last week, after six weeks, we discovered that for the first time the american people now know that james comey testified before congress that he was not, that the f.b.i. agent that interviewed flynn didn't think he was lying. it took us six weeks for the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. to get rid of the redactions. that was finally released late on a friday night. if you go back to the things they have dealt with, if you look at what fusion g.p.s. and getting the documents that were pertinent for that fight, that is another good example. the fact we weren't able to figure out that the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. actually knew that the clinton campaign and th

national sacred trust and responsibility. i think it pretty much prevailed the first 15 or 20 years and gradually over time. the partisanship that has affected the congress generally has invaded the committees, particularly the house. that's not good for the intelligence committee. the intelligence committee needs oversight. our history is replete with abuses over time. so we need that oversight. is what we are doing legal, ethical, moral, and in accordance with american standards and values? that should be the main purpose of the committees. sometimes what happens it evolves into micromanagement. essentially people want to do the job of seniors in the intelligence community for them. that is not good either. you lose sight of the big and important things what they're doing is legal, moral, and ethical which is how they started in the first place. the she you bring up is a case in point. the message here is that the committees are credible and effective when they do things on a bipartisan basis. it has credibility in the intelligence committee. they have to represent all of the voters, the american people who cannot have access to all of the secrets. you are servi

congress was clearly aware that signing on to the obligations will have some to protect our national security. the general agreement on tariffs and trade agreement signed in 1947 that was a precursor to the world trade organization that we have today. so that's a little bit of the history section 232. it is important to recognize that they play a role in all of this and after 9/11 congress is extremely worried that we did not have a way of planning for the protection of our critical infrastructure. so that was included in the patriot act which distinguishes between national security and national defense. i say all this because of general mattis memo was released but it only needs a certain percentage of aluminum and steel in order to support his name. that was taken as a proxy for the fact that not a national security issue. national defense is a subset of national security. cbt, customs and border protection has been charged with developing framework or critical infrastructure and identifying critical fact errors that are elements of our critical infrastructure and did designate as critical components fo

former attorney general beaten former congressman dennis kucinich, well known to fox viewers and people across the nation. he was once the youngest ever mayor of cleveland, long history in congresshe has lost his race tonight to richard cordray, who was the head of the consumer protection finance bureau and very closely aligned with elizabeth warren. he will take on mike dewine. mike dewine against richard cordray in the ohio governor's race. we can also project that mike braun, who came into this race as the outsider businessman sort of a bit of the trump aura around his candidacy to some extent, he has won the senate primary in indiana. he's going to face off against the man who is considered perhaps the most vulnerable democrat senator in the country in indiana where president from won handily. t now mike braun will go up against joe donnelly. defeats two sitting congressman, luke messer and todd rokita.ne the dynamic between the two of them was kind of similar to whan we've seen in west virginia where you have two current politicians sort of duking it out, very nasty race against each other. mike braun emerges as the winner there. we are still waiting on more indications on

national security thad turn out to be false and erroneous. congress has a constitutional role of oversight. they have a right to the documents and i know the attorney generals recused, but this is congress' role, and they are not providing the information that they legitimately deserve. >> congress as well as the function that we've been actually carrying out with the oversight committee. if you look at what chairman nunez and his intelligence committee have been doing they have already uncovered things that have serious concerns, but there is still more that we are doing' in this investigation. and chairman nunez ought to have every tool to get this information, and we are going to get this. one way or the other, the fbi and the department of justice will have to recover. the fbi ought to be working with us to rip these people out. why would they do things like this? they sent this document, this was one of the documents that they sent over and practically the entire page is redacted. so we will continue to do our job and get this information. chairman nunez has been doing ag good job and his committee at uncovering more.is but think about this, this show

in the past, even as congress has become a lot more partisan in the last several years, the intelligence committee generally has remained pretty bipartisan. and on high-level, national security matters, you do see them having bipartisan briefings. so it's fairly striking that this is not going to be that. particularly since the whole pretext for this briefing is ostensibly to determine whether there was political motivation for the special counsel investigation. and in fact, the only people being briefed are republicans and people from the administration. so, it is something that, you know, they have agreed, i guess, ultimately to brief both parties. but it's clear that the goal of this briefing is not just to glean information, but to give republicans a chance to figure out how to use that information, or if it's possible to use that information, to sort of further the narrative that carl was just talking about, and the narrative that the president is pushing without any substantiation at this point. >> josh, is there any good explanation or, i mean, reasonable explanation, why both parties shouldn't see this information at the same time? >> well, there is no good

national security that have turned out to be false and erroneous. congress has a constitutional role of oversight. they have a right to these documents. i know that the attorney generals recused, but this is congress' role, and they are not providing the information that they legitimately deserve. speak all right, congress' role is this that we have been carrying out. and if you look at what the chairman nunes has been doing, they have already uncovered a lot of things raising real serious concerns. but there is still more that we are >> right, congress' role is this doing in this investigation. and it chairman nunes ought to have every tool to get this confirmation, and we are going to get it. one way or another, the fbi and the department of justice are going to have to comply. but think about this. we have already raised serious questions about about apples at the fbi. they ought to be working with us to route these people out. why would they do things like this? this is one of the documents that they sent over a period practically the entire page is redacted. this is ridiculous. so we are going to continue working and doing our job to get this information, and it

congress. the democrats were part of both meetings. giving the briefing was a director of the fbi christopher wray. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and director of nationalelligence dan coats, the white house chief of staff john kelly and emmet flood made remarks before the meeting but did not stay for those meetings. presenters laid out whatever information they had on if there was an informant placed within the trump campaign as early as 2016. >> there are serious questions that need to be answered and from my standpoint, the top priority of this iestigation is to revea exactly what happened so we can restore confidence in the fbi and the department of justice. reporter: house minority leader nancy pelosi said the meetings were a bad idea because you have to protect sources and methods. adam schiff, a democrat on the house side summed up the democrats' feelings. >> nothing we heard today was changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign, or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. reporter: former director of national intelligence,

former director of of national intelligence turned anti-trump fake new cnn pundit james clapper caught lying directly to congress yet again. is congress ever going to face the general flynn standard or does he get the hillary, oh, we don't have equal justice under the law standard? john brennan's comments, is this a deep state threat against the president of united states? later, we'll address michelle wolf's petty, cheap, lame performance at the white house correspondents dinner. finally, the caravan is scaling the fence. where is the mexican government? all of that plus, candace owens is fresh off her meeting with kanye west. she will give us all of the details later in this program. o buckle up. we have a busy opening news monologue. ♪ appeasement never works. tonight, we have another damning reminder. the israeli prime ministermi benjamin netanyahu is now sounding the alarm and as per usual, the prime minister has pure moral clarity. i've been saying this for years. now the prime minister is revealing, according to thousands of pages of official documents obtained by intelligence sources, iran's nuclear program is alive and well. the iranians call it project am

generations will live with the choices made now by engineers and inventors, operators and maintainers, voters and consumers, private and public enterprises, and by congress. as for all of the briefings sponsored by the national history center, our goal is not to prescribe policy, but offer historical perspective in the hope that it will help everyone understand the potential consequences of the choices that face us today. i'm pleased to introduce my two colleagues. bednarek is professor of history at the university of dayton where she teaches courses on urban history and american aviation. it includes america's airports, and mostke flight, recently, airports, cities, and -- u.s. airports since 1945. her article, "the flying machine in the garden," was included in the best american essays of 2007. to 2014, she served as the executive director of the urban association -- urban history association, and then as president of the ohio academy of history. she will be followed by peter professor of history and the department of engineering and society at the university of virginia. rivals,cle, street published in technology and culture, won the abbott payson usher prize. and he is a member of the university of virgi

generations will live with the choices made now by engineers and inventors, operators and maintainers, voters and consumers, private enterprises, local state governments and of course the congress. as with all the briefing sponsored by the national history conference, our goal this morning is to not describe policy but to offer historical perspective in the hope that people can understand potential consequences and the choices that face us today. i'm pleased to introduce our colleagues who have studied infrastructure made in the past. janet is professor of history in the university of dayton where he teaches courses. his work on airport history includes america's airport airfield development. a centennial history and most recently airport cities and the jet age. the flying machine in the garden parks in the airport was included in the best american essays of 2007. from 2005 two 2014 she served -- she will be followed by peter norton, executive professor of history in the department of engineering and society at the university of virginia. is the author of fighting traffic, the dawn of the moderates in the american city. his article street writers jaywalking and one the avid patent usher prize and he is a member of the -- each wi

nation's past. nect andw.c-span.org.con sign up today. withxt, a conversation deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about the rule of law. he asked about justice department operations and the oversight role of congress. this is just under one hour. [applause] thank you.ns: thank you. mr. deputy attorney general, thank you very much for participating in this event today. i would like to begin with a question that is on everybody's mind. [laughter] gen. rosenstein: uh oh! [laughter] prof. collins: i would appreciate a clear and direct answer. [laughter] to set the record straight. how do you pronounce your last name? [laughter] [applause] is it rosenstein or rosenstein? gen. rosenstein: there is no right answer. [laughter] i have relatives who pronounce it stein. i will answer to either one. [laughter] prof. collins: all right. you agreed to do this public interview with no screened questions in advance. in the presence of the press. and without any reservations, other than pending cases. the question i have is, why? [laughter] gen. rosenstein: i couldn't turn down this invitation. particularly on law day, which is very significant to me and my career. i think it's important for us to take opportuniti

generation really begin to assume some responsibility for the future of the nation. i think we had an impact, and i don't know whether or not we depended so much on members of congress,on the governmental officials. as a matter fact, some of us knew that. things have changed and you have more reasons to depend on government now. i would just ask you to not allow all of your focus to be on the whims of government. you can change society by taking some of the conditions that you find prohibitive to living a life of quality and safety. i assume you really understand that you are on the threshold now. i mean, changing society. you're on a mission. sometimes you happen to be -- you know you can't live lives of comfort and lives of just, you know, the sacrifice that you're really committed to this, to not only you were trying to change society, you trying to change thinking, trying to change the morality of society, and i think that it might suffice, the cost might be a little more than you anticipate paying. >> thank you, mr. rush. [applause] mr. tonko. >> thank you, mr. chair, and thank you to the leadership of the chair and those who have cohosted the event today. i app

national sacred trust.initial responsibility not related to home state or party. i take that prevailed in the first 15 or 20 years and gradually over time the partisanship that has infected the congress generally is invaded the committees particularly not so much a senate intelligence committee which is remained bipartisan but the house and it is not good for the intelligence committee. the intelligence community needs oversight. unfortunately, our histories have abuses over time. go back over the life of the intelligence committee. he that oversight. it is what we are doing legal, ethical, moral and in accordance with american standards and values? that to me, should be the main purpose of those committees. not i think, sometimes in my experience, it devolves into micromanagement. we essentially, people want to do the job of seniors in the intelligence community for them. that is not good either. i think every tendency to lose sight of the big things, important things. but the community is doing is legal, moral and ethical. which is how they started in the first place. and the issue that you bring up the case and point. that is an important issue. i think the message here is, the committees a

generate savings. and i certainly understand the need for a businessm mentality o be brought to operations and congress has directed amtrak to work to make the entire national network financially more sustainable. but we have also said we want you to do that without compromising service. so the issue that i most want to bring to your attention is these coalitions of passenger groups feel excluded from the process. and what i would like to get from you today is a commitment that you will increase your outreach to passenger coalitions before making fundamental changes in your operations and routes. >> yes, chairman collins, we do endeavor to do that and in fact we have, for a number of our changes have been in dialogue with the impacted parties, you concur that some of those policies have not been -- have not made all of the constituencies happy but i think we're trying our best to achieve exactly what you describe, which is ways to follow in some respects many of the types of initiatives that ms. quinn has been able to develop on the down easter and apply those in other places and reduce costs and improve performance at the same time. but fundamental to that

generate savings. i certainly understand the need for a business mentality to be brought to amtrak operations and congress has directed amtrak to work to make the entire national network financially more sustainable, but we have also said we want you to do that without compromising service. so the issue that i most want to bring to your attention is these coalitions of passenger groups that are excluded from the process and what i would like to get from you today is a commitment that you would increase your outreach, to passenger coalitions before making fundamental changes in your operations and roots. of initiatives that ms. quinn has been i believe to develop and reduce cost and improve performance at the same time. but fundamental to that is our responsibility to engage with the constituencies and with our customers and keep them part of process so we will do that. >> thank you. ms. quinn, my final question has to do with a comment that you made, which i thought was very startling. you said there had been 18 accidents involving the down easter over the years and not a single one of them had been the fault of the train. we have learned a lot in looking at r

generation, the and of responsibility. we want to teach the nation. and i think we had a new thing. and i don't know if we were depending so much on the members of congress on other governmental officials, as a matter of fact, some of them were the enemy. you have more reason to depend on knowing that now. i would just ask you to stay focused. you can change society. when you find this living the life of equality. and seeing that, unless you really understand, changing society. in some sense, you are in a setting to start a mission. sometimes, you have to be willing to -- you can't live life of comfort, and you are really committing to this. to change society and change more than society. i think that it might be a little more than you anticipate. >> thank you mr. rush. mr. tomko? >> thank you mr. chair and thank you to the leadership to the chair and those that have cohosted the event today. i appreciate the forcefulness by which you are conducting the task force agenda. let me first pay tribute to the student power here, as has been indicated, you are the force that exists out there. and just like there are chronological generations, i believe there ar

nations. they have their own political reasons for doing what they are doing. they all have parliaments or congresses. they are officials, their generals have to respond to. you're never going to eliminate the fact that every country has their own prerequisites, their own -- so knowing that, let's assume the germans cannot go into a certain area, take that into consideration. it is not a fault of the german parliament or they got a restriction or the japanese have a restriction. realize that and come up with a plan that utilizes each one of those countries best capabilities. that is the first thing. we have to be humble enough to realize that every other countries like ours i have political answers they have to come to. the other thing general is, if you know you're going to have a coalition of approach, realize that what's promised isn't always what's delivered and i think you probably face that with nato. you would go out and recruit the troops. nato promised x thousands but it turns out only have showed up. how do you then go forward with that hole in your approach? i think that is something to take into your consideration. >> okay,

generating station. that and many other plants throughout the nation have closed their doors in decades. yet congress has yet to agree on how to safely store that waste. what's really important, is we must store the waste, but while we develop nuke nuclear energy technologies -- new nuclear energy technologies that are capable of producing less of their own waste and consume the waste. i reminded secretary of energy of that yesterday. in the meantime, until that technology -- it is sinful that we have not developed that technology which we're capable of that could eat this waste. until we do, having safe storage at yucca mountain makes all the sense to me. and is safe for my constituents. thank you, mr. shimkus. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from illinois reserves. gentleman from new york. mr. tonko: i continue to reserve. the chair: reserves. gentleman from illinois. mr. shimkus: mr. chairman, i recognize for one minute the gentleman from georgia, mr. allen. the chair: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. allen: mr. speaker, i rise today in suppor

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generations. i could not be prouder to welcome him and his inspirational voice at capitol hill, especially at this critical time for our nation. i hope his words serve as an example and challenge to this congress to redouble our efforts to uplift and empower families and communities. thank you, pastor singleton, for joining us and leading us in prayer. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. ros-lehtinen thank you so much, mr. speaker. i rise in recognize significance of lupus awareness month because nearly 2/3 of the public know little to nothing about the disease beyond the name. lupus is a drastically unpredictable disease. it has no known cause, no known cure and it can be fatal. an estimated 1.5 million americans are currently living with lupus, including my lovely stepdaughter, kathryn, and millions mor

nations ability to keep it secure. >> part of me, but what are you going to do that? we have them hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt of congress to do. >> the next step this week is, will have to lay out and probably have to go to court in order to enforce this subpoena. we have been in discussions over the weekend with our general counsel from the united states congress. remember, we did this with learner and also with attorney general holder. but i think this will be a much different case where i cannot imagine that the attorney general, jeff sessions, will defend not providing pertinent documents. there important documents. >> this is a very big deal.so far you're saying that you have heard nothing from jeff sessions and from his office. is that right? >> i'm not even sure that we heard from the legislative director for the department of justice. i do not know that the attorney general is even aware of our request. >> well, he will be now! how do you think that he will respond, if at all? >> i think we need to talk to the attorney general. make sure he understands the significance of the request. everett talked to the direc

national congress and she's right down here. we want to move sojourner truth. she wants to propel the truth. general vice president unite and nancy cou nancy kaufman, give them all a very big hand. [ applause ] i don't like giving written test speeches, but i do want to be able to speak -- yeah. i did. i'm sorry. i thought you turned it off. i was going to comment. did you turn me off? let me give a little background in our journey as woman. the evolution of wars as it relates to our history, but i commend you to do so because i think that what we have forgotten is to tell our story and so if i come into the 20th century, and i'll tie it into the music debate that we had on the floor because as you well know all of the love songs and the syrupy songs and my girl and the beach boys and all of those kinds of songs had women in a certain mindset. one song that so many of us liked, my girl, but we were sunshine and we were just so light and light-headed. but then came the understanding of the civil rights movement and women to the like of such iconic women as shirley chisholm and gloria steinam that we