h. res. 520, impeaching samuel b. kent, judge of the united states court for the southern district of texas for high crimes and miss demeanors. --. misdemeanors, and that the following engrossed and agreed to or passed by house. h. res. 520, in the house of representatives, u.s., june 19, 2009. impeaching samuel b. kent, judge of the united states district court for the southern district of texas, for high crimes and misdemeanors. resolved, that samuel b. kent, a judge of the united states district court for the southern district of texas, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the senate. articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives of the united states of america in the name of itself and all of the people of the united states of america, against samuel b. kent, a judge of the united states district court for the southern district of texas, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemea

h. con. res. 109. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 109, honoring the 20th anniversary of the susan g.komen race for the cure. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate proceeds to the measure. mr. reid: i ask that the unanimous consent be agreed to the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, there be no intervening actioner debate and any statements related to this matter be placed in the record at appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask consent that we discharge the judiciary committee from further consideration of the senate -- and the senate proceed to s. res. 142. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 142, designating july 25, 2009, as national day of the american cowboy. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged, and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid o

i rise today to your knowledge my colleagues to support h. res. 529, a bipartisan resolution that i offered with mr. pence, mr. waxman, mr. smith and mr. engel and i thank the speaker for promptly bringing it to the floor today. with the input and guidance from many members of this chamber as well as the bipartisan congressional task force against amendment semitism. i rise today in great sorrow as this nation mourns the loss of officer johns who was killed yesterday at the united states holocaust memorial museum at the hands of a hateful white supremacist. i offer condolences of officer jaunches and condemn the vicious attack on the holocaust memorial. the museum is a place of reflection and expression of the addage, never again. the museum seeks a world without racism, anti-sifmentism, holocaust denial and intolerance. this vicious attack hurt all americans. a hate crime in every sense, this attack violates all of us. acts of hatred and violence cannot and will not be tolerated in our country. today, the lessons of the holocaust are more releva

on june 10, the house judiciary committee ordered h. res. 520 favorably reported by roll call of 29-0. judge kent, incident to his position as a u.s. district judge, engaged in deplorable conduct with respect to employees. such conduct is incompatible with the trust and confidences placed in him as a judge. judge kent sexually assaulted two employees of the court. he corruptly obstructed, influenceed an official proceeding by making false statements to the fifth circuit and making false and material statements to the agents of f.b.i. and department of justice. these acts of sexual assault and obstruction of justicer as the judge who sentenced judge kent stated, a stain on the justice itself. with the house of representatives to sit by and let the judge sit in prison while holding the office, it would be a stain on the congress as well. judge kent conduct was a disgrace to the bench, that he would still cling to the bench from the confines of his prison cell and asked the public whose trust he has already betrayed to continue paying his sala

one thing i see and you are correct h res 125 and chris in new jersey is a leader in this area. there is engagement in this issue. one of the things the state department is looking at is how to deal with this in a holistic matter, what are we looking at as far as interplay between the state court and what is going on in another country which might have its own legal system and own legal take on that particular custody battle. it is something we will continue to engage on. host: new york, good morning. [dial tone]. going to ed in cleveland, ohio. caller: two quick points. does the human trafficking fall under the same legislation as for the earlier government appointees who -- i think three or four years ago, where every other one of them was found to have an illegal alien working for them and they weren't getting benefits all that stuff? remember where several of them were recused from the getting positions. you know what i am referring to? guest: indeed. what we saw in the '90's and early years of the bush administration, it seemed like a rash of prospective cabinet noomnys tha

i'm proud to sponsor h. res. 454, which recognizes the 25th anniversary of the national center for missing and exploited children. as founder and co-chair of the victims' rights caucus along with mr. costa, i'm thankful for the work that the sentencer does to protect the nation's children. at the time the center was founded, 25 years ago, there were little or no resources available to assist law enforcement with the cases of missing children. in fact, there was no way for police to enter information about missing children into the f.b.i.'s national crime computer. today, thanks to the work of the national center for missing and exploited children, this is no longer the case. each year, approximately 800,000 american children are reported missing. when a child is missing, the national center for missing and exploited children work alongside families and law enforcement agencies in locating, finding and recovering the children and bringing them home to their parents. many people may be familiar with john walsh fro

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk is currently executing the order of the house in h. res. 587. mr. gohmert: to put the extra pages into the official copy. but is it required that it actually be a full official copy put together before you satisfy the requirement of having an official copy at the desk? the speaker pro tempore: two components of the official copy are there together. so it is, in effect, the official copy. mr. gohmert: so the two together are in two different piles being worked out together is the official copy. i appreciate the explanation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. barton: i'm parliamentary inquirey out. i yield one minute to mr. price. the speaker pro tempore: mr. price is recognized for one minute. mr. price: madam speaker, this would be humorous if it weren't so dog gone sad. this will impose a massive tax that the president's own aides have admitted it would cost $2 trillion. the president boasted about the enormous cost saying under my cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, unquote. indeed, this pla

these reasons, i urge my colleagues and i thank the gentleman from washington again for bringing h. res. 410 to the floor and urge its passage. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields his time. the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. petri: i yield to our colleague from indiana, representative souder. mr. souder: i thank my friend from wisconsin for his leadership on transportation and for the time to speak on this bill. as a member of the boating caucus, since we first formed this, i'm really pleased to be supportive of this resolution. in indiana, in northeast indiana, basically, i represent a lot of water with plants and farms in between. and in our county, we have 100 lakes and another county we have 100 ladies and gentlemen. along one ridge, one goes to lake michigan and another goes down into the mississippi valley. we have -- because of geologic potholes, connected together sometimes through small dams, sometimes in natural larger lakes, we have the bulk of the lakes in indiana when the glaciers pulled back that in this zone, i g