goodlatte, for the reading of the constitution. mr. goodlatte: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, this morning for the fourth time in the history of the house of representatives, we will read allowed on the floor of the house the full text of the u.s. constitution. it is our hope that this reading will help demonstrate to the american people that the house of representatives is dedicated to the constitution and the system it establishes for limited government and for the protection of individual liberty. we also hope that it will inspire many more americans to read the constitution themselves. the text we will read today reflects the changes to the document made by the 27 amendments to it. those portions superseded by amendment will not be read. in order to ensure in order to ensure fairness to all those interested in participating, we have asked members to line up to be recognized on a first-come-first-serve basis. i will recognize members based on this guidance. each member will approach the podium and read the passage laid out for him or her. in order to ensure relativ

goodlatte, for the reading of the constitution. mr. goodlatte: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, this morning for the fourth time in the history of the house of representatives, we will read allowed on the floor of the house the full text of the u.s. constitution. it is our hope that this reading will help demonstrate to the american people that the house of representatives is dedicated to the constitution and the system it establishes for limited government and for the protection of individual liberty. we also hope that it will inspire many more americans to read the constitution themselves. the text we will read today reflects the changes to the document made by the 27 amendments to it. those portions superseded by amendment will not be read. in order to ensure in order to ensure fairness to all those interested in participating, we have asked members to line up to be recognized on a first-come-first-serve basis. i will recognize members based on this guidance. each member will approach the podium and read the passage laid out for him or her. in order to ensure relativ

goodlatte: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the committee will be in order. the committee will be in order. members will please remove your conversation from the house floor. he committee will be in order. he committee will be in order. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: mr. chairman, regulatory reform plays a critical role in ensuring that our nation finally achieves a full economic recovery and retains its competitive edge in the global marketplace. congress must advance pro-growth policies that create jobs and restore economic prosperity for families and businesses across the nation and makes sure that any administration and it's regulatory apparatus is held accountable to the american people. america's small business owners are suffocating under mountains of endlessly growing bureaucratic red tape. the uncertainty about the cost of upcoming regulations discourages employers from hiri

goodlatte: mr. chairman, at this time i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from utah, the chairman of the oversight and government reform committee and a member of the judiciary committee, mr. chaffetz. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. chaffetz: i want to thank chairman goodlatte. i also want to thank congressman ratcliffe of texas. included in h.r. 5 is the all-economic regulations or transparent act or the alert act. i want to highlight in the past two congresses that the alert act was reported favorably out of the oversight and government reform and the alert act is simply a transparency bill. it requires the administration to provide meaningful information about upcoming regulations online before those are actually issued. early online disclosure will create the need for transparency so the public can see what's on the horizon. each month federal agencies are list all regulations that will be proposed for finalized in the final year and for each regulation

. >> all right, guys, we just came from visiting congressman goodlatte's office. we had 12 people, we delivered new year's cards. it was easy, it was fun and hopefully he will hear our demands that he represent us and our issues going forward here in roanoke. >> you do not recognize these people because these are not famous people. this is three people from roanoke, virginia. because they're from roanoke, that means their congressman is republican congressman bob goodlatte and he is the republican congressman who wrote that amendment this week to gut the independent ethics office. there's been this big controversy this week as the first order of business for the new republican-led congress, bob goodlatte's amendment would have stripped the office of this power. and when these constituents of bob goodlatte's, when they heard about what he had done, that it was their congressman doing it, they did something that's not very hard, they went down to his office, as they said, to wish him a happy new year. they made him a card. we think we have a picture -- yes, this par

goodlatte: i support this amendment. sthessne of these reform commonsense requirement that an agency when it publishes a major rule include a plan for reviewing how the rule is working within 10 years. the focus of that review is to determine whether it is possible after the rule has been put into practice to find new ways to lower the rule's cost. the gentleman's amendment speeds this process up, require regular view within five years and increases congress' oversight, requiring reports by agencies to congress on their reviews. most important, the amendment requires that if an saget's report to congress shows the rules cost in practice are higher than an pis tated -- anticipated at promulgation, the agency must institute a notice and comment process aimed at finding provisions to lower costs. this this is -- this is a measure that can only strengthen the bill's effectiveness and help lower the burden on the american people. i support this amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields, the chair recognizes the gentleman fro

house republicans met at a conference and they approved a last-minute rules change offered by bob goodlatte that would take the office of ethics,ional a independent watchdog group and put it under the oversight of lawmakers. the concern of a lot of government groups is that you would essentially have lawmakers policing their own ethics, which creates some potential conflicts of interest. there was a lot of debate over exactly what this change would have done. some of the biggest changes that the office of congressional ethics would've had under this package is that if the ethics committee one of them to stop an investigation, they would have to stop. the office of congressional ethics would not be allowed to employ a press spokesman and they would be restricted with what information they could make public. the ray a lot of concerns that lawmakers had had of over the office -- there was a lot of concerns that lawmakers have had over the office. there was concerns that the office could make information ds ofc during certain perio allegations they were investigating. lawmakers did not like tha

goodlatte: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 5. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i ask general leave for -- the speaker pro tempore: the entleman will suspend. pursuant to house resolution 33 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 5. the chair appoints the gentleman from illinois to preside over he committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 5, which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to reform the process by which federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations and guidance documents to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency interpretations, to ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on small entities of rule

on goodlatte's staffers were involved. according to reports, trump made the staffers sign nondisclosure agreements. let's start with the staffers who reportedly were working on this without the knowledge of their superiors and their bosses. when are we looking at the timeline when this all started rolling here? >> there's new information a little bit go, bob goodlatte told a closed meeting of house republicans that his staffers were in fact working during the transition period and helped on some of this policy and on some of this language, which is a new development, because these are capitol hill employees, like you said, who signed nondisclosure agreements and helped craft this policy that the speaker of the house didn't know about, the judiciary chairman didn't know about and the homeland security chairman didn't know about. the judiciary committee will not comment at all about the nondisclosures. this is extraordinarily rare. i've been covering congress for a long time, i've never heard of a congressional staffer stein

goodlatte, seek recognition? mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 21. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i ask general leave to call up h.r. 21, the midnight rules relief act of 2017, for consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 21, a bill to amend chapter 8 of title 5, united states code, to provide for an en bloc consideration and disapproval for midnight rules and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 5-b of house resolution 5, the bill is considered as read. the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. conyers, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte. mr. goodlatte: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as

bob goodlatte passed six or eight bills out of committee. i don't remember the exact number. i asked them to pick up where they left off. this is something we wanted to get something last year. we ran out of time. we intend to pick up where we left off and get going on criminal justice reform. i think it's good policy, the right thing to do for lots of reasons and, yes, this is the right thing to do. last question. reporter: i appreciate it. can you commit that the congress will have completed a repeal and replace of obamacare by this session? speaker ryan: our legislating will occur this year. our legislating on obamacare, our repealing and replacing and transitioning -- legislating will occur this year. what date all of this gets phased in on is something we do not know now because we're waiting for the trump administration to be stood up. we're waiting for tom price to be confirmed and become the secretary of health and human services. the question there is, how long will it take for markets put in place, for markets to adjust? that question we don't know the answer to. bu

the measure's sponsor, republican bob goodlatte of virginia, said in a statement the move "builds upon and strengthens the current arrangement and improves the due process rightsts for the house members under investigation." we will have more on the office of congressional ethics later in the broadcacast with craig holm, who helped set up the original ethics office. in turkey, police have launched a series of raids across istanbul arresting at least 12 , people as police continue to search for a man who opened fire inside a nightclub during a new year's celebration, killing 39 people. isis has claimed responsibility for sunday's attack on the reina nightclub, where hundreds of turks and foreigners were celebrating early in the morning. the attack killed 11 turkish citizens and more than two dozen tourists from saudi arabia, iraq, lebanon, jordan, india, morocco, and other countries. this is a man who was inside the nightclub during the attack. actually, i did not see him. as soon as he entered the club, he started firing and he did not stop. he fired nonstop for 20 minutes at least. we

represent bob goodlatte who pushed the amendment said in a statement it strengthens the office.emocrats are outraged. minority leader nancy pelosi says republicans claim they want to drain the swamp, but the house gop has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions. the ethics amendment is part of a rules package the entire house will vote on today. and ahead on "cbs this morning," we'll have more on what the new congress has in store, as it gets back to work. >>> president-elect donald trump continues to push back at u.s. intelligence accusations that russian hackers interfered in the u.s. election. but now, as jeff pegues reports, it appears politicians are not the only target. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that over the last few days u.s. officials have begun investigating new and potentially successful cyberintrusions. raising concerns the russian hacks might have been more extensive than originally thought. and government analysts are still investigating if russian hackers successfully breached vermont's electrical grid. malicious code found on the

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chairman bob goodlatte betrayed by the trump administration. behind his back with his own staffers. if somebody on my staff in congress did that to me, again, i want to say a word i can't say. their crap would be out in the hall that morning. if they tried to get in the office, i would have capitol police and have them handcuffed and taken off premises. it's unbelievable. let's see, who else was betrayed? oh, chairman bob corker, betrayed. all of them betrayed by stephen miller, steve bannon, and, yes, the buck stops with donald trump. all of them betrayed. you want to talk about betrayal, that was betrayal of men who have fought and given everything to their country. >> let's go to the top three. in the united states you have three war fighters, general dunford chairman chiefs of staff. his term was up. >> i didn't talk about general dunford, betrayed. >> general john kelly from brighton, massachusetts and general mattis, united states marine corps, all three united states marine corps. they have been at this task of keeping america safe, as the president keeps alluding to, in a ho

goodlatte: i thank the gentlewoman and i thank her for her ardent work on this important cause. however stark americans' differences of opinion can be on the matter of abortion generally, there has been long bipartisan agreement that federal taxpayer funds should not be used to destroy innocent life. the hyde amendment, named for its chief sponsor, former house judiciary committee chairman henry hyde, has prohibited the federal funding of abortions since 1976, when it passed the house and senate that was composed overwhelmingly of democratic members. it has been renewed each appropriations cycle with few changes for over 40 years. supported by congresses controlled by both parties and presidents from both parties. it is probably the most bipartisan, pro-life proposal, sustained over a long period of time, over a longer period of time, than any other. it's time the hyde amendment was codified in the u.s. code. h.r. 7, the no taxpayer funding for abortion act, sponsored by representative chris smith of new jersey, would do just that. it would codify the two core principles of the

. >> reporter: the surprise move began monday night when congressman bob goodlatte proposed a change to house rules behind closed doors to rein in the office of congressional ethics which was created nearly a decade ago in the aftermath of the jack abramoff scandal. the proposal would have given the very house members who might be investigated greater control over the office of congressional ethics. critics of the ethics panel say it has overreached in its pursuit of headlines. and the gop conference voted 119-74 to make the changes. >> i support it just because i think it's, first of all, i think it's duplicate, but at the very least, in my view, it requires greater oversight than it has. >> reporter: a top trump adviser said earlier in the day that the panel needed to be overhauled. >> there's also been an overzealousness in some of the processes o es overs years. we don't want people wrongly accusing, don't want people mired in months if not years of ethical complaint review. >> reporter: yet the proposal put republicans in an awkward spot. with some refusing to say if they wanted

it's confirmed to nbc news that michael mccaul nor bob goodlatte were consulted on this executive order. and politico says senior staffers helped donald trump's top aides draft the executive order, but the party leadership were not informed. and that the small group of staffers were among the only people on capitol hill who knew about what was to come. politico cites two sources familiar with the matter that the trump administration even asked the staffers to sign non-disclosure agreements. the communications committee director declined to comment, but an unaimed aide told politico, quote, like other congressional committees, some staff at the house judiciary committee were permitted to offer their policy expertise to the trump transition team about the imgraduation law. however the trump administration is responsible for the final policy decisions contained in the executive order and its subsequent roll-out and implementation. john corker said, he probably found out through the media. i know they said they talked to staffers on the hill, not in our office. senator marco rubio said the

the chair bob goodlatte said they worked on the plan and did not make any kind of decision.florida. good evening. sir. >> good evening. >>> that's a nice polite way to say it because a lot of people were very upset and still upset. a lot took the streets and the airport and it was confusing. >> i support having a support immigration we do not want american people to assume rising to their safety and security. i had chance to meet king abdell la of jordan. isis is trying to -- it was an issue. we have to get it right. i'm hoping the trump administration does that. >> do you have observation to staff working on this or had permission from the chairman committee. >> he address he had up early and seemed to think the article was misleading. he understood this preworking. i do think that i have encouraged my staff to work with the legislative folks in the white house, because having white house support for the bill is good. there's room for collaborative process. if you're doing executive action that's done within the executive barra branch. >> do you prefer issue be brought to t

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speaker ryan: yes, it is my goal. , theke with bob goodlatte chairman, a number of democrats, he had 11 bills he got out of the committee. they put a load out. those bills are pretty much ready to go. they will have to remark up and send them through the floor again. jeff sessions was helpful on this. i think we have got to get -- a good partner at the justice department for this. i think cory booker is the lead guy in the senate, this is something i think is a long time in coming, something we should do, that is one of the things i want to get done in 2017. jake: moving into a different realm does the renewed torture , talk alarm you? this isn't a wedge. speaker ryan: donald trump says things like this. the president says things like this. i think you -- the president says things like this, and i think you and i and everyone has got to get used to that. jake: but these are like -- speaker ryan: like i said yesterday, we aren't going to change the log -- law on torture. it is illegal and will remain being illegal. jake: another issue that popped up today, john mccain said, if the pre

. >> reporter: the measure was proposed by judiciary chairman committeeman bob goodlatte, from a watchdogut in place by democrats in 2008 after the investigation of jack abramoff led to his conviction. democratic leader nancy pelosi leased a statement last night claiming republicans want to drain the swamp. but the amendment that republicans approved tonight will functionally destroy this office. even house speaker paul ryan spoke out against the measure which would rename the office of congressional ethics, the office of congressional complaint review, barring it from investigating anonymous tips. and giving a separate ethics power to end any investigation of their colleagues. republicans are also moving ahead with plans to dismantle obamacare. holding votes this week on a bill to make it easier to repeal the entire health care law within the next month or so. >> we're doing what we promised. >> reporter: georgia congressman doug collins. >> what we've seen with obamacare, what sounded good turned out to be a disaster. >> reporter: democrats say the disaster will be if millions of americ

. >>> nbc news has learned that judiciary committee chairman do goodlatte says his staffers volunteered to work on policies. he also said he was not aware of that immigration order. he did not specify whether his staff signed some of those nondisclosure agreements. >>> the search for a suspect after a double shooting in bowe. chopper 4 was over the scene. now investigators are trying to figure out just what happened here and why. jackie bensen is live at urbana place and church road. >> reporter: a search is for this brazen crime. police were called here to the intersection of urbana lane and church road around 3:00 this afternoon. they found a disturbing scene. two people who had been shot and an suv riddled with bullet holes. the victims are described by police as an adult and a juvenile. we believe that's a teenager. and their injuries are described thankfully as nonlife threatening. right now it is not clear whether the shooting took place at this intersection or whether the victims may have driven some short distance after being shot. busy annapolis road is not far away. but again

joining us congressman bob goodlatte of virginia, chairman of the house judiciary committee. good to see you. >> good morning. >> congressman, how do you think that the president will get you and your companions in congress to put billions of dollars towards building a wall that is factually not the heart of the problem with immigration? >> well, it is certainly one part of the problem, and it's not just immigration. it's also all kinds of other problems with drug smuggling and other things coming across that border. the congress voted a decade ago, the secure fence act, to build the wall. the question of exactly how you build it, whether you put a wall across the entire border, whether you have roads and use other technology to enforce parts of it, where it has been built, it has helped the situation. so building more wall is something that i think you're going to find very strong support for in the congress. >> even though you now have negative flow into this country, you have more people leaving. even though the process became -- >> wait a minute. you have negative flow fr

house republicans met at a conference and they approved a last-minute rules change offered by bob goodlattehat would take the office of ethics,ional a independent watchdog group and put it under the

it sounds like bob goodlatt thinks that the oce, the office of ethics was too powerful, it was overzealous it was at times too aggressive and took away people's due process. what do you think? >> i think that congress needs more ethics. i wish congress had the ethics that i found in the marines. i served with marines from all over the country, marines from massachusetts and vermont, but also alabama and texas. we came together with remarkably different political beliefs, different political backgrounds, different religious backgrounds but at the end of the day we found common ground to do what's right for the american people. we were able to put america first. i don't think there's anyone out there congress is putting america first if it dismantles congressional ethics. we need a higher standard. >> thank you for your service. as a veteran, who do you want to see now in charge of the va? >> i want to see someone who is going to improve and strengthen the va, someone who has the experience of leading a large organization who can fix the va, who can lead it, and make it work for american vet

. >> reporter: the surprise move began monday night when congressman bob goodlatte proposed a change to house rules behind closed doors to rein in the office of congressional ethics which was created nearly a decade ago in the aftermath of the jack abramov lobbying scandal. the proposal would have given the very house members who might be investigated greater control over the office of congressional ethics. critics of the panel say it has overreached in the pursuit of headlines and the gop conference voted 119-74 to make the changes. >> i support it because first of all i think it's dupe ka tif but at the least in my view it requires greater oversight than it has. >> reporter: yet the proposal put republicans in an awkward spot with some refusing to say if they wanted to weaken the panel. did you vote for that? >> that was a voice vote. it was not a recorded vote. but frankly i sat there and observed. >> reporter: now, erin, i asked that congressman three times how he voted monday night on that proposal. he would not say. the reason why he is able to not say is that was a private vot

what the speaker is doing is defending the author of the amendment, bob goodlatte and say even thoughwill no longer be completely independent will still have many of the same mechanisms in place. that's true but as we've discussed, we talk to republicans and democrats, the issue is this. there's been a lot of concerns about this office, what this office was able to do with its independence. however, this office was a very important component of oversight on capitol hill. oversight that was brought into play in 2008 in the wake of a number of different house scandals. speaker paul ryan now defending it. speaker paul ryan splitting wih the president-elect who has decided he has a problem at least with them doing this now first on the agenda. >> phil mattingly reporting live from capitol hill. we're just about an hour and a half away from the start of the first congressional session of the new year. one of the first items on the agenda as well. dismantsling obama care. currently 6.4 million people signed up for coverage in the state of kentucky alone. i'm sorry, including 74,000 in the

. >> reporter: yet sources tell cnn that house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte and michael mccaul had no involvement in drafting the executive order. some influential republicans say the trump administration failed to fully understand the ramifications. >> this was an extreme vetting program that wasn't properly vetted. >> reporter: nevada senator dean heller, a republican facing reelection in a state trump lost, tweeting, i am deeply troubled by the appearance of a religious ban. the use of an overly broad executive order is not the way to strengthen national security. >> just here from syria -- >> reporter: senate democrats are pushing legislation to kill the executive order, hoping to win gop support. >> this executive order -- was mean-spirited and unamerican. >> reporter: but trump remained defiant. >> i noticed that chuck schumer yesterday with fake tears. i am going to ask him who is his acting coach, because i know him very well. i don't see him as a cryer. if he is, he is a different man. >> reporter: now, wolf, any moment from now, the senate democratic leader chuck schumer

. >> congressman bob goodlatt is one of the people who spearheaded this effort and it sounds like what oce, it was overzealous, engage in overreaching and it could have the potential to deny people their due process. what's your response? >> if those are real problems, hold a hearing, come up with solutions, fix it. but don't decide that the independent nature of the office of congressional ethics needs to be completely eliminated because there are maybe some problems. now, you know, i'm open to suggestion that there might be ways to improve any aspect of government or any aspect of oversight, including ethical oversight, but to simply say that because there have been some problems, perhaps. we're going to eliminate the public's avenue to blow the whistle on misconduct by a member of congress. it's just a bridge too far and it is not a good start for the 115th congress and for complete republican control of government. if this is the way they intend to govern for the next couple of years, we better fasten our seatbelts. >> what are democrats going to do? >> well, this government belong

after this ethics agency only came up in a closed door monday night meeting when congressman bob goodlattevirginia offered a proposal to change house rules in order to put what he believes is more oversight of this committee. critics said this would have gutted the committee. once that proposal actually was adopted in this closed door meeting by house republicans, it got a lot of blowback publicly. members of congress were getting tons of phone calls from angry constituents, getting bad headlines in the press, and donald trump tweeted saying earlier this morning that he does not think that this is what congress should be doing. actually saying with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it may be their number-one act and priority saying they should focus on other things like tax reform and health care. that led after all this pressure was building, house speaker paul ryan holding an emergency meeting with his members, ryan himself opposing this idea and prevailing upon his members to join with them because

chairman goodlatte walked our members through how this worked. i'd refer you to him. >> when you talk about the role of congress, these are temporary measures. do you plan to pass any measures? the trump administration is looking at further immigration limits? what do you have planned in the works and when were you told specifically about this order? some of the members said they were -- >> pretty much at the time it was being issued. i don't know specifically. we were briefed on the contents of it as it was being rolled out. and i had a conversation with secretary kelly to make sure that we separate fact from myth. that we make sure the confusion gets cleared up very quickly. clearly none of us want to see people with green cards get implicated in this. we want to make sure that's very much clear up on a go forward basis. what the president has asked us to folk ous and something we completely agree osomethin, som we agree on is we need to secure our border. the physical barrier on the border is all about. we have security concerns given this age

goodlatte: mr. speaker, on the floor of this house in 2011, the president of the united states promised the american people that, and i quote, to reduce barriers to growth and investment, when we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them, end quote. but mr. speaker, those were just president obama's words. his actions were starkly different. throughout the entire eight years of the obama administration, a flood of new major regulations has been burying america's job creators and haas holds at record levels and to make matters worse, when congress declined to legislate the president's misguided policies for him , he increasingly resorted to unilateral regulatory actions to legislate by executive fiat. it is time to say never again. the reins act, in one fell swoop, puts a stop to abuses like president obama's and assures that congress, the body to which the constitution assigns the power to legislate, has the necessary tools to block the most overreaching regulations a

chairman goodlatte walked our members through how this worked. i would refer you to him. [inaudible]. >> pretty much at the time it was being issued. i don't know exactly specifically. we were briefed on it, contents of it as it was being rolled out. and then, i had very good conversation with secretary kelly to make sure that we separate fact from myth. that we make sure that the confusion gets cleared up very quickly. clearly none of us want to see people with green cards emly indicated in this. that is not the goal. here. we want to make sure that is cleared up on a going forward basis. what the president asked us to focus on and agree on, we completely agree on to secure our border. we have a border security problem. that is what the physical barrier on the border is all about. question have security concerns on age of terrorism. given drugs across the border. we have opioid problem. the focus first and foremost is on border security. thank you. stuart: now that was speaker ryan. he holds a regular news conference, once a week. usually around tuesday mornings around t

but bob goodlatte, the chair of the house judiciary committee who made this proposal, said that it is the proposal and said that it is going to make things clearer for everyone. the amendment, he said, builds upon and strengthens the existing office of congressional ethics by maintain iing. >> the high priority for president-elect trump and congress is obamacare repeal. where does that stand in terms of likelihood? >> it's a very high likelihood. first of all, because it's a very high priority for republicans who have tried to do this literally dozens of times before. obviously, there was a democrat in the white house at that time so he always vetoed those moves. this time there will be a republican in the white house. you'll see both the house and senate move to pass a bill that essentially speeds up the repeal process so they can go ahead and fully repeal obamacare within the next 30 to 45 days. there will be some kind of grace period that they'll try to put in there, charlie, for people who do get their health insurance through obamacare, but democrats warn as soon as they try to r

month ago, along with my democratic judiciary committee colleagues, i sent a letter to chairman goodlatte asking him to hold hearings on the conflict of interest in ethics provisions that apply to the president of the united states. i have not heard a response. every democrat in the house signed on to the protect our democracy act, legislation to create an independent, bipartisan-appointed commission to investigate russian hacking in the 2016 election and to make recommendations to ensure that nothing like that happens again. it's interesting that not a single house republican has joined us. i join my constituents and millions of americans in wanting to know why. why republicans are working so hard to protect present elect trump from having to answer -- president-elect trump from having to answer questions. why are republicans working so hard to support president-elect trump's extreme and out of touch cabinet? why aren't republicans asking the same questions about how president-elect trump will avoid conflicts of interest? i have served in this body for nearly 25 years. i have seen this b

i am proud to carry the torch for this commonsense legislation and i also want to thank chairman goodlatte and his staff for all their hard work on this bill. article 1, section 1 of the united states constitution grants legislative powers to congress. we read about that right here on the floor this morning. but for too long, congress has credited that power to the executive branch. this is a problem we have seen under administrations of both parties and members on both sides of the aisle should be concerns. in recent years the problem has exploded. in 2015 alone, the executive branch issued over 3,000 rules and regulations. 76 were major regulations. late me explain that. unelected bureaucrats without input from their elected representatives in congress would impact our economy by more than $100 million each in one year alone. the. the reens act would require agencies to submit a major rule to congress for approval. under this bill major rules would have to be accepted by beth chambers and signed by the president to become effective this bill restores accountability to the legislative pro

jeffrey goodlatte says the 10 year treasury yield topping 3% would signal the end of a three decade longly in bonds, his "if we takest said a 3% in 2017, by five bonds bull market. " phil growth record the benchmarks treasury would spell an end to the bottom bull market. to -- pay penalties the agreement with include a guilty plea raises the cost of the scandal to more than $23 billion in the u.s. and canada, but the $19.2 billion they had set aside to resolve the dispute. minister facing calls to disclose who manages her financial interest after revealing she had placed her personal investment in a blind trust. her office said she used a well-established mechanism to manage her shareholdings to avoid a conflict of interest. liberal democrat leaders said it is not opportunity for her to deliver on a pledge to have the world's most transparent government. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalist and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. francine: thank you. breaking news out of the u.k., you mention data that was strong for the u.k., industrial pr

bob goodlatte passed six or eight bills, i don't remember the number.left off. we ran out of time. we intend to picup where they left out and get moving on criminal justice reform. it is good policy, right thing to do, for a lot of reasons. yes this is priority of ours. back of the room. >> speaker ryan, appreciate it. can you commit the congress will have completed a repeal and replace of obamacare by this session? >> our legislating will occur this year. our legislating on obamacare, our repealing and replacing and transitioning, legislation will occur this year. what date all of this gets phased in on is something we do not now know because we're waiting for the trump administration to be stood up. we're waiting for time price to be confirmed and secretary of health and human services. the question there, how long will it take for markets to put in place, for markets to adjust. that question we don't know the answer to but legislating on obamacare will happen this year. thank you. stuart: that was speaker ryan. he addressed obamacare, and he said, qu

i am a proud co-sponsor of this legislation and i'd like to cha chairman chabot, chairman goodlatte and marino for their work on this legislation. congressman ratcliffe and luetkemeyer put things to the package. the bill reforms the process by which they analyze and formulate new regulations and guidance documents clarifies the nature of judicial review of the interpretation and calls for complete analysis of the potential impact of rules on small entities. h.r. 5 includes the text of the separation of powers act which amends the administrative procedures act to overturn two doctrines that calls for judicial deference to agency interpretations of statutory and regulation interpretations. it presents -- prevents federal bureaucrats from interpreting the legality of their own regulations at the expense of hardworking americans and the constitutional separation of powers. title 1 of the regulatory accountability act requires agencies when establishing new rules to consider the lowest cost option that meets statutory requirements. the bill also provides for more public input in the rulemaki