kaptur: yes.r: i am very familiar with the waterfront, i know how these containers are loaded. .hey come into our ports full the majority of the containers go out empty because they come back full. it tells you everything you need to know about what is going on in this country. last 10 years, this has been going on for 30 years. if you recall, president clinton said, "we no longer need manufacturing jobs, manufacturing jobs are dead." what did we do, we created china, we created japan, we created world powers outside the united states. host: congresswoman. rep. kaptur: i really appreciate the gentleman calling in, because he is correct. california and its ports are primary ports of entry for all these goods that are coming from china, particularly, but also two leading are our trading nations, where we have enormous deficits. sector, untilive this day, i have tried with every ounce of my being, and i have not been successful, to open japan's market to goods from anywhere else in the world. they wo

it is sponsored by representative kaptur. appreciate her efforts to give students to give them a window in the health care mission. it would educate those who expressed interest in the medical field an early introduction to the v.a. health care system. it is my hope this program would inspire the pilots. while this bill did not move through regular order, this congress, it did move for regular order last congress where it was supported by various veteran organizations. i worked with my democratic colleagues to pass this bill through the house and i'm pleased to get it through the house today. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. takano: i yield five minutes to the the gentlewoman from ohio, ms. kaptur. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. kaptur: i want to thank chairman takano for his staunch leadership for veterans and for moving this

kaptur. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: i'd like to thank chairman nadler for yielding and my call today is for full transparency with a clear focus on the sinister motives of russia's corrupt leaders. their interference in our 2016 elections has created anger, bewilderment, exactly what russia wanted. today's resolution calls for the department of justice to make special counsel robert mueller's report, along with any findings available to the public to the maximum extent permitted by law and to provide the report and its findings in its entirety to the congress of the united states. so whether you view special counsel mueller as a patriot conducting a nonpartisan investigation into a foreign power's possible influence in our elections or as a witch-hunt, a full accounting and public release of the findings is needed to heal our political differences. this is not about embarrassing president trump. this is about closure and full disclosure. if there was no collusion, as the president has emphasized, then he should

kaptur. ms. kaptur: madam speaker, i want to thank the gentlelady of north carolina for helping to organize this evening, as well as the dean of the north carolina delegation, david price, virginia foxx, truly so many of us miss walter jones among us already. and we thank you for this special order, this hour to celebrate the honorable life and service of the late congressman walter b. jones of north carolina, a man of deep conscience and integrity. his word was his bond. it is with a sense of true sadness but abiding gratitude that i rise tonight to join all of you as we pay tribute to our cherished friend and colleague, walter. and offer sincerest condolences to his beloved wife, jo ann, and daughter, ashley, to their friends, to their family, to his constituents in north carolina and friends across the country. i also rise this evening in memory of his father, walter jones sr., with whom i had the privilege to serve when i was first elected to the congress. we both shared a great interest in m

the next chapter shall be in kaptur in two thousand and twenty two we trust that the corresponding structures of those states maintain close contacts will be ready to share our experience and to consult our friends about how better to approach the contact of the this chapter football championships taking into account the decisions which were taken and we reach vindicated herself during the preparation of the championships and russia's a concern international agenda we paid attention at of course to a situation in the near east not of africa's first of all the syria libya and some alia we are with our partner i assume there is a need to stabilize as soon as possible the situation of this can trace relying on international law and why all the comprehensive company has a political crisis where there is no part for extremists no matter what slogans they might use we spoke a lot about the situation of the palestinian israeli conflict we advocate that this conflict is settled on the international law that forms and so that the contribution to the restoration of the you unity openness to and unity a

kaptur: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: madam speaker, i rise to commemorate world water day, just celebrated on march 22. water sustains life on earth. it is critical to health, to sanitation, food prodtion, and the economy at large. tragically, over two billion people arnd our world lack access to safe drinking water, a humanitarian crisis, and some live in our country. limited access to freshwater is an ever-increasing risk to our national security as nations go to war over this precious resource. meanwhile, terrorist organizations seek to control water resources to finance their destabilizing activities, and that is why we must fully fund u.s. diplomatic leadership to ensure that the looming conflicts over water can be nipped in the bud. my own constituents in northern ohio are acutely aware how precious access to clean water it can be. in the summer of 2014, fertilizer runoff led to harmful algal bloom on lake erie, co

kaptur. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: i'd like to thank chairman nadler for yielding and my call today is for full transparency with a clear focus on the sinister motives of russia's corrupt leaders. their interference in our 2016 elections has created anger, bewilderment, exactly what russia wanted. today's resolution calls for the department of justice to make special counsel robert mueller's report, along with any findings available to the public to the maximum extent permitted by law and to provide the report and its findings in its entirety to the congress of the united states. so whether you view special counsel mueller as a patriot conducting a nonpartisan investigation into a foreign power's possible influence in our elections or as a witch-hunt, a full accounting and public release of the findings is needed to heal our political differences. this is not about embarrassing president trump. this is about closure and full disclosure. if there was no collusion, as the president has emphasized, then he should

kaptur: during this women's history month, i rise to ecognize the life of mad enalbright, secretary of state from 1998 to 2001. who dedicated the best years of her life to defending liberty. concurrently it's my honor to recognize the 70th anniversary of nato. this historic alliance emerged out of the ashes of the bloodiest conflict humankind has ever known, world war ii. it is thanks to nato that the free world defeated soviet russia's tyrannical grip over europe and expanded democracy eastward. 70 years late eric -- later, nato remains as vital as tover national security. today russia seeks to undermine democratic values enshrined by nato and its member nations as russia leads a deadly war against the people of ukraine and undermines democratic institutions around the world including in our own elections. for this reason, congress welcomes jan stoltenberg, ecretary general of nato, to a dress here to invoke america's commitment to this abiding relationship. on the 70th anniversary, on behalf of grateful millions of ohioans and american, we send assurance to our european allies we sta

kaptur: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: madam speaker, on monday, the trump administration released what has to be the cruelest and most irresponsible proposed budget in our nation's 243-year history. the trump budget adds trillions of dollars to our national debt, d then the trump budget cuts $1.5 trillion from medicaid, $845 billion from medicare, and $26 billion from social security. meanwhile, it cuts over 90% of the funding for fresh water in the great lakes restoration initiative. we're not going to be able to combat deadly al ga blooms in lake erie. or contain invasive species like the asian carp. or restore the great lakes. and their environmental integrity. the president's promise he would never cut social security, medicare, or medicaid. and yet he's done exactly that. his proposed budget adds trillions to the national debt, while also undermining the financial pillars of medicare, social security, and medicaid. m

and congresswoman marcy kaptur on the trade deficit which just reached a record $891 billion. with a new reportm, adam on government debt and spending. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ host: good morning. it is marked seventh, 2019. the senate returns this morning. we are with you for the next three hours on the "washington journal." we begin with the decision by house democratic leadership to put on hold the -- toi-semitism in response policy toward israel. it has caused renewed questions about when and how congress should condemn comments made by individual representative tenney senators. our question for