gomer? mr. gomer votes yes. >> anyone else? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, the ayes are 12, the nays are 26. >> will go through several of the amendment right now. to be very careful with the president we said in this a bill. we are, in many ways, in uncharted waters. most glaring examples is the stay on lawsuits. this was first introduced from the minority leader, nancy pelosi just looking at the policy without consideration of the politics, it deprives american citizens of access to the judicial system with respect to defending their private property rights. you get my republican colleagues quite a chill, unlike those who advocate for socialism, we believe in private property and the american citizen should have a means to defend their property in court. to my knowledge, the automatic stay in this ability ever before been attempted. let's be clear, this would be the first ever federally imposed of ann actions outside actual bankruptcy case. if you vote for this, you're telling the bond market you, as a member of congress, are fine with changing t

gomer. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> i greatly respect my friend from puerto rico. i appreciate his sincerity and effort on his behalf of his constituents. the point continues to be made that puerto rico is not a state. puerto rico and i've missed it, is not voted to ask to become a state. but that's also the reason that puerto rico, guam, virgin islands, actually every american entity, except for the district of columbia that does not elect a full voting member of congress does not pay federal income tax that's why i filed the bill of district of columbia paid federal income tax. but one of the things i've not really heard anybody address, we've talked about in europe the need for the minimum wage to be raised and when we for an individual who accepts, they may be looking at $1,700 a month to take home where as under the current minimum wage, it's about $1,200 take home, well, the incentive there is obviously not to work, but i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage. obviously, that would even increase the disparity betw

he is not as flashy as a person with charisma, fired up louis gomer type of guy. >> but the takedown, being a bad policy guy, happening in opinion columns. >> fair enough -- >> i think his halo, i would argue for the halo, but tell me what he is doing with the videos. >> all right, here is what i think is going on. first of all i think he is trying to provide a counterweight to donald trump. he has a whole bunch of his members running for re-election, all of them actually. and some of them are pretty vulnerable and don't want to be tied to donald trump. so you have to have this counterweight, the leader of the house of representatives who is a reasonable policy-focused polished, young attractive guy who sounds inspiring, right? so on the one hand he is looking out for his members to at least let them tie themselves to somebody else. >> like a shadow presidential campaign? >> no, okay, hear me out. i think he is trying to help his republican caucus on the one hand in this november election so they don't all get tied to donald trump. >> one with me, don't run with trump. >> exactly, but

gomer has not been recorded. mr. casa votes no. >> it's hard to hear that, i know. [laughter] >> mr. young votes no. is there anyone else who has not voted or wishes to change? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, the nays are 33. >> the amendment is not adopted. i think we have six amendments still to go. so let's go as quickly as we possibly can. six or seven. mr. macarthur, number 55. you already had that passed out. you're recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment addresses an error, i think, an error in the bill that came from an over abundance of caution, the bill as it stands authorizes oversight board with same extraordinary powers for each of the nation easter toirs except that none of the rest of them face looming crisis that now faces puerto rico. no territory other than puerto rico has asked us to get involved. the u.s. virgin islands have asked not to be part of this and i worked with representative plaskett on this amendment and my concern is that it could have the unintended consequence of eroding other territories access to capital ma

stuart: louis gomer, republican from texas said he's not going to support trump unless he gets a fulljonah goldberg, national review said it's not in my heart. i can't vote for donald time. you've got an uphill struggle when he felt the main political people saying no way, not going to do it for trump. >> well, there's no question. a lot of individuals have made statements like that. we need to focus on healing the wounds have been caused by the primary process. but we've got time to do that. we need to understand and every one of these individuals who have said that i hope will come together and realize the bigger picture at hand of four years of hillary clinton is much more than four years in terms of time. there are things that she will do during that time that will set off a trajectory that maybe not reversible in terms of judges and think she will point and do that we need to remember the big picture here. i hope all the individuals you have mentioned another's will come together and recognize that. stuart: how about the donors? donald trump will need a billion dollars. as the rn

at the top of the hour coming up, congressman louis gomer am a friend of "varney and company," is hejump on board with trump or is he demanding an apology? the return of john stossel who was diagnosed with lung cancer. he is back and he has a story to tell. stuart: new this hour congressman louie gohmert, is he ready to unite behind trump or is he waiting for an apology? he joins us in a moment. this hour john stossel, first appearance since revealing his cancer diagnosis, here to tell a great story about the american healthcare system. the hyperloop, california, la to san francisco, what does that do to your body, how about those geforce is? doctor siegel joins us shortly. donald trump will attend fundraisers in los angeles. that is clinton country. california, maybe, is it in play in november, could it be? wait and see. first the markets, we are on the upside, we are down 33 points, 17-6 is the level. the retail ice age we talked about all week very much enforce, nordstrom is the latest victim of this retail ice age because they are down 15%. ashley: missing profits, revenue, cutti

gomer for five minutes. >> appreciate the witnesses being here today. the his is important. since the internal revenue service is the only entity in which i'm aware in the federal government that can ignore the constitution. as part of its job. nobody else gets to ignore the constitution. but they can take people's money without due process. they can take their property. they can move in and destroy a business that took a lifetime to build. and they have done that. so it is particularly important that the agents that work for such an agency, they can ignore the constitution must itself be completely overwhelmed with integrity. what we've seen is not the case. i know and have known irs agents who were as fine and honest of people as walked the earth. i have heard from irs agents who were -- have been furious privately to see the kind of corruption and dishonesty that has woverwhelmed the top of the internal revenue service. because he just filed an amended tax return because she had forgotten $600. even though she still had a refund coming back, she was called in and was goin