lofgren, is recognized. ms. lofgren: mr. chair, i would note that it was justice kavanaugh in bloom vs. federal lection case who wrote the opinion that it is fundamental to the definition of our political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to in and thus may be excluded from activities of democratic self-government. this idea that we're going to infringe on foreign governments' rights to participate is simply not legally supportive. would like now to yield to the gentlelady from california, valued member of our committee, mrs. davis, for one minute. the chair: the gentlewoman from alifornia, mrs. davis, is recognized. mrs. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. we know there have been foreign ttacks on our election infrastructure. that is a fact. knowing there are those out us of our eek to rob democracy, why would we leave open?or wide why would we not create a shield hen our democracy is under attack? the shield act, carefully my colleague and chair, ms. lofgren, requires report itical campaigns an

lofgren: mr. speaker, i'm honored to yield three mins to the author of this bill, my colleague from the state of california, the gentlewoman, ms. porter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. porter: i'm a single mom and when i ran for congress last year, i spent thousands and thousands of dollars on childcare. running for federal office requires 50, 60, 70, 8, 090, 100-hour work weeks and i worked nearly every single day, including every single weekend and i also worked challenging hours, often starting at 5:30 a.m. and ending with campaign events stretching late into the evening. i juggled more than a dozen childcare providers for nearly two years, without whom i would have never made it to congress. i had three children. when i started my campaign, betsy was 6, paul was 9, luke was 11. leaving them alone was in the an option and bringing them on the campaign trail was impossible or inappropriate. for the past two century, congress has written many, many laws about what wom

brown: i want to recognize the hard work, first, of chairwoman lofgren. your hard work, your leadership on this important issue and the underlying bill. it's clear that our foreign adversaries have and will continue to interfere and influence our elections, and attempt to erode confidence in our government and destroy our democratic system. the mueller report made clear that the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systemic fashion. and mr. mueller testified earlier this year that many more countries have developed disinformation campaigns since 2016, targeted at the united states, our democracy, and our system of elections. facebook on monday disclosed it had taken down four new foreign interference operations originating from iran and russia. soliciting and accepting foreign interference doesn't just violate our democratic norms, it clearly violates our laws. yet in june, president trump said there would be nothing wrong with accepting from a foreign government incriminating information about an opponent. and

i commend chairwoman lofgren for her leadership in drafting this critical piece of legislation, of my colleagues to support it. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time. tempore: the o chair recognizes the gentleman , mr. meuser, nia minutes. mr. meuser: these investigations into an impeachment inquiry is in which the words of hasinian president zelensky been largely ignored. to aid no pressure, related trump investigations in ukraine. president zelensky's words have because ely ignored they don't fit the narrative pushed by the democrat of this house. now think. to president zelensky wanted severely damage our president, he could have lied and stated he did feel pressure. oesn't that scenario give you chills? had a foreign leader simply fabricated one publicly stated phrase, the entire democrat caucus of this would be calling for our president's head and repeating and over. that is the reality of this sickening and dangerous guilt that some members of this body are choosing to push. nothing dent deserves less than the due process and resumption of innocence afforded to all

was introduced by the administration committee chair, zoe lofgren of california. she tweeted on how the bill cracks down on info sharing to keep foreign governments out of our democracy. tell us about that aspect. tim: number of these are direct responses to incidents that happen since 2016. that provision is interested in polling data that paul manafort, former campaign manager for trump, might have shared, reportedly shared with russia. the provision about the duty to share comes from an interview with president trump after the election, where he said, i don't know if i got an offer like that again, for foreign help, from a foreign nation, if i would reported to the fbi. he doesn't think he should have to. he said, maybe i would listen to it, and i would reported. this is trying to put into place very specific requirements on things that happened in 20 and cents. >> rodney davis of illinois introduced his own legislation and tweeted about it recently, saying he is leading an effort to protect against foreign interference in elections and preserve integrity of th

chairman lofgren, congressman korea. rank pg member buck and other distinguished members of the committee thank you for the tune to appear before the subcommittee to testify about the important issues. my name is hector barajass i mean a veteran deposed in 2004. immerman honored to speak on behalf of my fellow dpoerted veterans. about my experience. i would like to acknowledge that some formallily deported veterans joined us miguel perez. jorge and green card veterans. i'm not froud broad of ma what led to my deportation but i'm proud of military service and accomplishments in my life including the starting the support house in tijuana. i grew up in compton, california. we moved to the u.s. when i was 17 years old. as a chide child i rerm pledging allegiance to the flag every morning. i enlisted when i was 17 years old. i was a lawful resident at the time. i wanted to serve my adopted country and as asaw the service away i to leave kafrpten and possibly go to college. i volunteered for airborne the school serving from 19

lofgren: in opposition to the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. lofgren: i would like to say that the motion to recommit should be opposed. it is so much weaker than the bill that we have an opportunity to pass to get foreign interference out of our elections so that millions of americans are not exposed unwittingly to the ads by the russian trolls. i would now like to yield the balance of the time to the gentleman from new york, mr. rose. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will come to order. the gentleman is recognized. mr. rose: i rise in strong opposition to this blatant attempt to help foreign agents subvert our democracy. we stand -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will come to order. he gentleman will suspend. the gentleman is recognized. mr. rose: we stand at the crossroads of history, foreign enemies have attacked our elections in a sweeping and systematic fashion, and they're continuing to do so. we are f

lofgren, mentioned that last night. there were elements in this bill, i agree with my friend, are things we can work on together. there are other things, whether we are right or wrong, my friend knows we disagree with, and we will not accept. frankly the united states senate will not accept, and the president will not accept. so it's a classic legislative dilemma, what do you want to do? do you want to make a point or make law? if you want to make law you get to the things that you agree on and that can pass the other chamber and be signed by the president. so far in this area of election security, i think my friends have been more interested in making a point than actually in making law. i urge opposition to the rule on h.r. 4617 because it's deeply flawed and a partisan bill that will not solve the underlying problems. it will not prevent foreign interference in our elections. it will only make it harder for americans to participate in their own democracy. it applies inappropriate regulatory schemes to online advertis

. >> i want to congratulate congresswoman lofgren for the work of her committee on the uestion of shielding us from language in -- the particular says if a candidate or any individual affiliated with a campaign of a candidate knowingly receives an offer for assistance with the campaign from a source the candidate or individual knows is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power, the candidate or individual shall refuse the offer for such assistance and notify the federal bureau of investigation of the offer not later than 72 hours after receiving the offer. miss floris, if this legislation passed but it's intent should be acted upon by the f.b.i., what infrastructure do you have to ensure a quick response to any reporting of this kind of activity? ms. floris: thank you. the f.b.i. becomes interested in foreign influence activity when it hits the four categories i spoke about at the beginning. subversive, coercive criminal nature of it. the f.b.i. will respond as we do in any investigation. the full might of not overwhelm the foreign influence task force but the hundreds of agents and an

and that's how he beat out zoe lofgren, and he became a chair of the committee x. this is what he's doing, he's abusing his power. >> one last question from me, and then we'll shift. we'll end on a positive note like you do in your book. >> yeah. >> what's the path forward, what should conservatives be looking toward to kind of rein this? >> i don't want to just lay out all the bad, right? you come and listen to the meeting, and you're bummed out. it's not the feel-good meeting of the year. try to end on a positive note that this is the greatest country on the face of the planet. somehow, some way the american people figure these things out. they stiff out authenticity, they understand these issues, but we have to be aware of them. the very fact i write that you're reading the book is good news, the fact that people, like, want to dive deeper on these issues. but with i also think it's incumbent that we engage in federalism, that we push back on the tenth amendment, we push these -- the federal government does too many things to too many people. so much of this eit

lofgren on the republican side which in the previous years had easily passed the house and in one year passed by the veto override majority of 93 votes in this yea and this yl short by 175 with only 175 votes. so i think what i fear if i want to hear you address is what is our hope for actually being able to kind of get it right with this technology? it's simple. so, it would be there are cases we are at least to the local level we have very strong protections against warrantless wiretapping into private communications are protected. i know this is complicated at the national level by the foreign intelligence work, but the more to get to that question we have the reason. you would think that having spent the better part of four years working on this book about these frightening technologies lying half asleep at night and i would be fairly pessimistic but i don't see that as being an option because i don't think that people would really do anything i don't think people that are pessimistic go to their town council meeting or write to their congressmen. it is a little hard to get one to

introduced by the administration committee chair, zoe lofgren of california. she tweeted about how the bill cracks down on info sharing to keep foreign governments out of our democratcy. tell us more about that aspect of the bill. >> there's a number of these that are direct responses to incidents that have happened since 2016. in that case that provision is very much interested in the polling data that paul manafort, the former campaign manager for trump, might have shared, reportedly shared with russia. the provision i mentioned about the duty to share comes from an interview where president trump after the election where he said, i don't know if i got an offer like that again for foreign help from a foreign nation if i would report it to the f.b.i. didn't think he should have to. maybe i should listen to it and i would report t this is trying to put in place requirements about very specific incidents that happened during 2016 and since. >> another person on that administration committee, ronnie davis, illinois, he introduced his own security legislation. he

. >> what's the support looking like for the lofgren bill on the floor? >> it's going to have an awful lot, i anticipate, 100% support from democrats. it's going to have very little support from republicans. >> and any chance in the senate? >> no, probably not. one of the things that democrats are trying to do with this, in addition to trying to put republicans on the record and be able to show during election campaigns that they voted against these kinds of ideas that they think are going to help combat foreign interference, they're trying it put pressure on the senate to take action. there are things the senate has done on election security, but smaller and rejected comprehensive bills from the house. they're trying to pressure the house along the lines what they'd like bigger and broader. >> thank you, we'll keep following you @timstarks. >> thank you. >> the house will be in order. for 40 years c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington d.c. and around

. >> congresswoman zoe lofgren, thank you. susan page, what are you looking at?focusing on sending good thoughts to the nats for the world series. >> really? okay. well, you're not alone. i think joe's trying to figure out how to get to a nats game. this is pretty exciting. susan page, thank you very much. >> you know, mika, the whole nationals thing is really something. i've known people in washington who have been following this club for two to three weeks. >> die-hards. >> well, they've been fighting for a long time to get to this point. >>> still ahead, new polling shows hall of all voters in six states support the impeachment inquiry into president trump. we'll dig into those numbers. >>> and as president trump calls for unity among republican lawmakers in his defense, democratic senator dick durbin joins the conversation to gauge sentiment ahead of an impeachment trial in the senate. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ i knew about the tremors. but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in. he starte