goodlatte. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and their remarks include extraneous materials on s. 32, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time. mr. goodlatte: international drug traffickers are profiting off the misery of american citizens, including our children. in recent years, our nation has experienced an epidemic of opioid abuse, a significant part of that epidemic involves the trafficking of illicit heroin across our borders and into our communities and homes. every member in this chamber today has a heartbreaking story about a constituent or a constituent's child who has been lost to this scourge. the irony, mr. speaker, is that international drug traffickers know our drug trafficking laws as well, if not better, than most americans do. and they k

goodlatte: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to claim the time in opposition although i am not opposed to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized, without objection. mr. goodlatte: i yield myself such time as i may consume. i thank the gentleman from california and the gentleman from georgia for offering this amendment. this amendment makes a small but important change to h.r. 5046, to clarify that grants can be used to improve the interoperability of prescription drug monitoring programs, or pdmp's. they're a tool in combating the opioid epidemic and have been established across the country. this will help medical practitioners see what potentially dangerous medications a patient has received in another state before writing a prescription. i urge my colleagues to support the amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. desauliner: i think we're going to recognize mr. carter, so however the proper approach is

goodlatte. and our subcommittee chairman, jim sensenbrenner, for his extraordinary leadership in andting this important bill f course our gentleladfrom texas ms. jackson lee for her continuing vigilance to improve our approaches toward deal with this opioid abuse and addiction challenge. and so, this bill before us has the per to fortify america's fight against the opioid epidemic and i'm extremely proud and supportive and urge my colleagues to join with me and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. mr. sensenbrenner: i yield myself the balance of the time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sensenbrenner: i appreciate the huge bipartisan support that this legislation has attracted. i've i have been working on legislation to deal with the department of justice and the opioid addiction issue for over two years. it took a while and unfortunately the expansion of a problem into an epidemic, to show this congress that we have to act, we have to act comprehe

goodlatte: mr. speaker, i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: mr. chairman, i yield myself as much time as i may consume in my concluding remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: members of the congress in recognition of the serious dangers faced by the federal passed rcement officers the law enforcement safety act which authorizes federal enforcement law officers to carry concealed weapons in any jurisdiction in the united states. passage of h.r. 2137 would ensure that when appropriations lapse or another government shutdown occurs, which we hope it won't, federal law enforcement officers authorized to carry firearms will continue to be able to carry their government-issued firearms throughout the shutdown's duration for personal protection and to respond to critical incidents. so i urge support for this bill . i thank all of the members who contributed to it and i yield back the balance of my

goodlatte: it has been quite a week.s week the house has passed 18 bills designed to address various facets of america's opioid epidemic. most recently yesterday the ouse passed by an overwhelming 413-5 vote the judiciary committee's flagship bill, h.r. 5046, authored by crime subcommittee chairman jim sensenbrenner. creates a comprehensive justice department grant program to provide states with the resources needed to fight opioid addiction. it authorizes $103 million a year for five years for the grant program. it allocates precious resources responsibly by leveraging and streamlining existing programs and fully offsetting the legislation in compliance with the house's cut-go protocol. in addition to that bill, the house passed four other judiciary committee bills this week to address drug abuse and protect american people. h.r. 5052, the open act, increases the transparency and accountability of the comprehensive opioid abuse grant program in h.r. 5046, by requiring grantees to report on the use of grant funds and req

goodlatte: it has been quite a week. this week the house has passed 18 bills designed to address various facets of america's opioid epidemic. most recently yesterday the ouse passed by an overwhelming 413-5 vote the judiciary committee's flagship bill, h.r. 5046, authored by crime subcommittee chairman jim sensenbrenner. creates a comprehensive justice department grant program to provide states with the resources needed to fight opioid addiction. it authorizes $103 million a year for five years for the grant program. it allocates precious resources responsibly by leveraging and streamlining existing programs and fully offsetting the legislation in compliance with the house's cut-go protocol. in addition to that bill, the house passed four other judiciary committee bills this week to address drug abuse and protect american people. h.r. 5052, the open act, increases the transparency and accountability of the comprehensive opioid abuse grant program in h.r. 5046, by requiring grantees to report on the use of grant funds and

i recognize chairman goodlatte for five minutes, i'm sorry. we have a various distinguished panel today. i will begin by swearing in our witnesses before excusing them. if you'd all please rise. raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give us the truth the whole whole truth of nothing but the truth so help you god? you may be seated area let the record reflect all of the witnesses responded in the affirmative. mr. lewis milione. special agent louis milione is a deputy minister to finance its drug enforcement administration office of version control where he serves as october 2015. mr. milione axes the prince of asa to the dea demands recount matters pertaining to the regulation of programs relating to the diversion of legally produce controlled substances and listed chemicals. mr. milione began his career with drug enforcement administration in 1987 and holds a bachelor of arts from villanova university and a law degree from rutgers university school of law. officer william smith junior is an officer with the wa

i recognize chairman goodlatte for five minutes, i'm sorry. we have a various distinguished panel today. i will begin by swearing in our witnesses before excusing them. if you'd all please rise. raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give us the truth the whole whole truth of nothing but the truth so help you god? you may be seated area let the record reflect all of the witnesses responded in the affirmative. mr. lewis milione. special agent louis milione is a deputy minister to finance its drug enforcement administration office of version control where he serves as october 2015. mr. milione axes the prince of asa to the dea demands recount matters pertaining to the regulation of programs relating to the diversion of legally produce controlled substances and listed chemicals. mr. milione began his career with drug enforcement administration in 1987 and holds a bachelor of arts from villanova university and a law degree from rutgers university school of law. officer william smith junior is an officer with the wa

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money manager jeff goodlatte says get ready for the presumptive republican nominee's presidency. ♪ ."ome to "countdown it has just gone 6:00 in the morning here in london. let's start the conversation about turkey, because that is what we have seen the big moves in asset classes. a chart shows what happened to the lira over the past few days. the big moves we have seen in the turkish lira. the turkish lira falling against the u.s. dollar. a reprieve in this morning's session, perhaps. two months of gains for the sinceh currency, the most 2008, at least on some measures. we will show you how the turkish lira is responding at the moment. the political scene in turkey, big questions about president his land grab, and how much the democratic institutions can stand that. this is where we are on the turkish lira right now. 2.9393. not getting up to that three lira to the dollar mark, which is what some analysts thought would be crucial. a quick word on what the dollar has done in may, typically. the dollar increasing in the month of may in nine out of the past 11 years. a bit of a warning i

if it's at all possible, chairman goodlatte, please consider returning the second day to do substantive work of this committee. in any event, i urge you to lead us past this distraction quickly and back to the work of some actual benefit to the american people. and i thank you for the time and i yield back. i yield back. >> the chair thanks the gentleman. without objection all other members open status will be made a part of the record. we welcome our distinguished witnesses today, both of whom are members of the house judiciary committee but as is our custom if you would please rise, we will begin by swimming in. [witnesses were sworn in] >> thank you very much. please be seated and let the record reflect that both witnesses responded in the affirmative. i would not begin by introducing today's witnesses. the first witness is the honorable jason chaffetz, who has been a member of the house judiciary committee since first coming to congress in 2000. representative district of utah is a member of the judiciary subcommittee on courts, intellectual property and internet, and the subcommitt

i saw chairman goodlatte taking a picture. tom cole, a former chairman, someone willing to work with leadership, pretty solid minded guy. as someone as a figure head within the house of the republican conference, what worries you the most about donald trump? and he said unpredictability. i would venture to say that's what paul ryan worries the most about trump as well, unpredictability on policy and temperament and what exactly donald trump will do to the republican party in the future. and when paul ryan has this meeting today and that one just concluded but now he's having one with the rest of the house gop leadership. i would venture to say this is the most important one. the leadership he's meeting with right now, they are the front lines of the conversations with the members. after this meeting you'll have kevin mccarthy, and steve xa lease and pat mchenry, the deputy whip. they will take what they heard and they will start answering the texts and e-mails and start answering the knocking on the doors of the rest of the ov

we're hosted by the congressional internet caucus, and we'd like to thank the co-chairs, congressman goodlatte and congresswoman eshoo and senator john thune and patrick leahy for hosting us here today. the caucus hosts events every few weeks on salient topics to the internet and policy, and and we invite you to come out for events throughout the summer. so today we have several excellent panelists with us today. we have emma llanso from the center for democracy and technology who works on the free expression project. we have rashad hussain from the department of justice, counterrerring violent extremely over there, and we also have seamus hughes, deputy director for the program on extremism at george washington university's center for cyber and homeland security. and my name is miranda bogen, and i'm a fellow at the internet law and policy foundry and a fellow at the congressional internet congress in the past. so let's get started. i'll just give a brief overview of the issue going on, and then we'll jump right into it and get into what's the real issue here with extremists online, what role

whom i was just discussing but a letter to the honorable bob goodlatte, chairman of the committee on the judiciary in the u.s. house of representatives. mr. president, if i may, i would ask unanimous consent that this appear in the record immediately after my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you so much. with that i note the absence of a quorum. i wish you well. see you in a week. the presiding officer: the clerk shall call the roll. quorum call: quorum call:

we would like to thank the cochairs, bob goodlatte and senator john sthune for hosting us today. we talk about salient topics to the internet and policy, and likes to come out to events for the summer. we have several excellent panelists with us. from the center for democracy, roughshod hussein from the department of justice, countering violent extremism over there and shamus hughes on the program for extremism at george washington university for cyber and homeland security. i am a fellow at the internet law and policy foundry, a fellow at the congressional internet caucus. let's get started. let's get a brief overview and jump into it and get into what is the real issue with extremists online, what role do platforms like facebook, and google play in this and what is the right way to be approaching the issue of dealing with extremists content online and recruitment for terrorist groups abroad. so as you may have seen, the social media platforms like twitter and facebook especially in their early years been quite in favor of leaving their platforms, places for free expression, ada

i'm gratel for ho judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte and house comitteend oversight government reform chairman jason chaffetz for their advocacy, standing up for american taxpayers. i conclusion, god bless ou troops and may the president by hisctns never forget september 11 and the glol war on terrorism. the spker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does th gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous cosent to addres e house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: witht objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to exess my deep concern with the danger the zika virus continues to represent to the expectant mothers around the world. as a member of congss who reesents e whole lifornia-mexico border, i strongly urge my colleagues to provide adequa resources to avoid potentially tragic coequences filies and communities like mine. more than 275 pregnant women are confirmed zika cases in ameri, incuding 10 in californi and the number only continues to grow. mr. vargas: i believe we hav a uni

. >> thank you, chairman goodlatte. i ask consent to enter into the record the statements of irs commissioner john andrew koskinen and the gentleman from maryland, ranking member elijah couplings. >> i reserve the right to object. >> the gentleman -- >> i object. >> wish to be recognized? >> i wish to be recognized. >> objection is noted. if the gentleman would yield? >> of course. >> point of inquiry related to the objection, the witness was invited to come and has delivered us instead a self serving written statement while telling us he respects the committee he's refusing to be here for his own impeachment inquiry. on what basis would we allow unsworn testimony for what should have been a sworn witness under the personality of perjury? >> may i -- >> of course. >> may i tell my colleague that first of all the gentleman who is the subject of this, this is not an impeachment inquiry. i think you used that phrase and that's incorrect. >> an inquiry into the recogn e recommendation for impeachment. >> no. the title of th

i recognize chairman goodlatte for five minutes -- oh, i'm sorry.y distinguished panel today. before introducing them, if you would all please rise. raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? you may be seated. reflect that all the witnesses responded in the affirmative. mr. louis milione? is that correct? >> guess. the deputylione is administrator for the office of the version control, where he has served since august of 2015. principale axes the adviser to the dea administrator on matters pertaining to diversion of legally produced controlled substances and listed chemicals. mr. milione again his career with the da in 1997 and out a bachelor -- and holds a bachelor of arts from villanova university and a law degree. asicer william smith junior an officer with the washington, d.c. metropolitan police department. he has over 20 years of law enforcement experience, much of which is focused on narcotics. ekhardt is the father of kotter eckhardt

goodlatte, myself, and mr. conyers, i indicated we missed a period of history of the crack cocaine users. many of them are languishing in prisons. so i'm hopeful that this bipartisan spirit, as we look to sentencing reduction through 3717, somethingmy rack louse because it includes retroactivity, many of those are crack cocaine users, nonviolent that we'll have the ability as this legislation works its way through congress to include them in the scheme of treatment and the restoration part of what we're trying to do in lives of people who are sick and addicted. i have someone come to me and say, don't forget the meth users and we know that meth was an epidemic and still is and how destructive it is to one's physical look and body. so i am delighted to join my colleagues here to say we did have a news worthy, great week and that we're taking a look at opioids in a different manner, that we are taking a look and working with physicians in the medical profession to be able to ensure that they do their work and tha

in particular, i would like to thank chairman goodlatte and upton, ranking members conyers and pallone, congresswoman brooks and congressman sensenbrenner and their staffs for the work bringing these important reforms together. these reforms are a step in the right direction. at this time i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentleman from georgia, mr. collins, for the customary 30 minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i rise to speak on the rule for consideration of h.r. 5046, the comprehensive opioid abuse reduction act. and h.r. 4641, a bill to provide for the establishment of an interagency task force to review, modify and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes. by the end of this week the house will have taken up a total of 17 bi

and it's chaired on the house side by congressman bob goodlatte and anna ashoe.we are super supportive, appreciative of their support and the fact they allow us to host these in a fair and balanced way with them. in a fair and balanced way. and their ability to say, we don't care -- we don't care where our particular perspectives are, but we want a good debate, pros and cons, on these issues and let, you know, congressional staff decide where they come out on the issue. so before i get going, just a few little bits of housekeeping. if you want to follow the conversation on twitter, the hash tag for today, #fccprivacy. and you can follow us at @netcaucusac. that information is on your list here. we don't have any upcoming events, but we'll notice one in a week or two. so the next one is on the transition for the department of commerce and internet governance. keep on the lookout for that. let me introduce, we have pros and cons on the particular issue. let me just introduce quickly my panel. right to the left here is jim halpert. he's with dla piper, which is a la

as my friend jeff goodlatte. are not looking. >> equivalent you're in a room with 700 people who always agree with you. you ask them, hey is this pimple noticeable. they go, no, no, it looks fine. to the outside world it is hideous. >> there are a bunch -- >> i never heard that analogy. >> like they all agree with each other because it is group think. >> dozens petitioned the fed i think last week for more diversity within the fed. they meant -- >> of thought? >> no. they meant diversity of race and gender and the like. >> right. >> but skin deep diversity, we want people who think differently. the dynamic, the general dynamic stow costtic, the general equity model, bungling that, the intellectual framework by which the fed directs our monetary fortunes has been shown to be ineffective anticipating future which they say they're in buys to doing. maria: they blew it in '15. >> it is true the fed manages federal funds rate and influences other rates and you know better than anyone the market trades on spreads, so t

bathroom, but through that when paul wright became speaker, i believe that he said that with chairman goodlatte and made a proposal that we needed a task force to address this overreach, and asked if i would share that, build upon the reputation of the pollsters of amendments that i brought over the years. and so we've addressed a number of different topics. a hearing just yesterday was on the foreign policy overreach. and the funding for example, of the operations in libya that puts me that was not appropriate for libya to ask about of another fund. we have addressed the domestic overreach. in fact, that baffing is a piece of that. there's a court case just yesterday came down on overreach, and i think john boehner for initiating this lawsuit but it was u.s. house of representatives versus berlin and that was when the obama administration decided to find the risk quarters under obamacare or before the correct it is hard for me to say. those are some of things that take place but i think immigration was the peace we have the most overreach of all, the president said 22 times i do have the const

. >> i thank the chairman and thank chairman goodlatte for having this important hearing.n koskinen had several duties. he reached every single one. he had a duty to preserve documents under subpoena. he had a duty to produce those documents that were under subpoena. he had a duty to disclose to congress if he couldn't preserve and produce those documents that were under subpoena. he had a duty to do that in a timely fashion. he had a duty to do testify accurately and correct the record if he testified in an inaccurate fashion. he breached every single duty he had and that's what congressman chaffetz and congressman de sanctis have outlined for us all here this morning. no wonder the guy didn't show up. if i had that kind of record i don't think i would have shown up today, either. never forget what happened here. the internal revenue service and the power that it has over american citizens' lives systematically targeted fellow citizens for their political beliefs. they did it for a sustained period of time. and they got caught. and when they got caught, they did what a lo

. >> thank you, chairman, goodlatte. before beginning my statement, i ask consent to enter the statements of irs commissioner john andrew koskinen and the gentlemen from maryland, ranking member cummings. >> i reserve the right to object. >> the gentlemen -- >> i object. >> i wish to be recognized >> objection is noted. >> if the gentlemen would yield? >> point of inquiry related to my objection. the witness was invited to come and delivered a self-serving written statement telling us he respects the committee but he is refusing to be here for his own government inquiry. on what bases would we allow unsworn testimony for what should have been a sworn witness under the penalty of perjury? >> may i? >> of course. >> may i tell my colleague that first of all, the gentlemen, who is the subject of this, this is not an impeachment inquiry. >> it is an inquiry in the recommendation for impeachment. >> the title of the hearing is examining the allegations of misconduct against irs commissioner john koskinen part i. >> i apprecia

goodlatte from virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize for not being able to be with you for the entire hearing. i did appreciate, in particular, your testimony, mr. eckhart, and this brochure. i haven't, in my experience here in the congress, seen a few other people who've basically dedicated their lives to trying to make their son or daughter's life meaningful and i know that's exactly what you're trying to do in dealing with a horrific loss like you are. so i very much commend you for that. i don't know how much your foundation's research has given you about this, and it may have been asked already, but some of these products like k2 and spice and chronic that i see on the bottom of the brochure here, they look like regular commercial products and that increases, i'm sure, the opinion that people think that, hey, this must be legitimate, it's for sale here in this store. what do you know about those companies? are they legitimate companies that make other products? or are they just totally illegal operations that have this