congresswoman betty mccollum. ms. mccollum: thank you, mr. jeffries. as was point out, i serve on appropriations and i serve on the defense appropriations subcommittee. so i too hear directly from our military leaders on a regular basis about the damaging effects of operating under the short-term continuing resolutions and the effects that they particularly have on our military. and as was pointed out, that's the reason why we're in this shutdown because republicans in congress and president trump haven't worked in good faith on a long-term budget agreement for our national security and for our domestic priorities. they wasted an entire year on their disastrous trumpcare. they took health care away from millions of americans. and then they worked on their tax scam giveaway to billionaires. that was the republican priority, not funding our government. and now, president trump has acknowledged himself that our active duty military will be among the millions of federal employees who will be working without pay. i grew up in a military family. i understand

>> don mccollum, yeah. >> don mccollum. >> he just became one of us during that period of time.nd he, too, did remarkable things that went above and beyond taking photographs. he also went out, and i can remember specifically one night because we would go out and get the wounded at night so we could recover them. he went out with a group to help bring some wounded back. so i had some really good memories of the journalists that were with me, and they were reporting very accurately because they were on the ground, they saw what was happening, they were very descriptive about it but they were very truthful about it. again, unlike some who would just pop in and pop out and i really didn't have a whole lot of credibility with some of those guys. >> now, a.b., i know you didn't get a chance to meet any journalists but you became kind of inadvertently famous. in fact, john's photograph, which ran over two full fudges fudges -- pages on the inside of "life" magazine didn't name any of the people on that tank. can you tell us how you came to realize you had been made famous? >> when i w

also thankful for the presence of betty mccollum, who has introduced an incredibly important piece of legislation for our veterans and for the men and women who serve in our military. i am also incredibly thankful for the presence of four individuals who serve this country with distinction as individuals who work in the armed forces and now serve this country with distinction as individuals in the united states congress who we would hear from shortly. this is day three of a government shutdown encouraged and inspired by donald trump and his co-conspirators in the republican led congress. it is unfortunate for the american people that republicans do two things well, cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires and shut down government. it was republicans who shut down government twice in 1995. republicans shut down government once in 1996. republicans shut down government for 16 days in october of 2013. last year, it was the republican president donald trump who said what this country needs is a good shutdown. this year,, the republican-controlled congress -- this year, the republican-c

>> don mccollum, yeah. >> don mccollum. >> he just became one of us during that period of time.e, too, did remarkable things that went above and beyond taking photographs. he also went out, and i can remember specifically one night because we would go out and get the wounded at night so we could recover them. he went out with a group to help bring some wounded back. so i had some really good memories of the journalists that were with me, and they were reporting very accurately because they were on the ground, they saw what was happening, they were very descriptive about it but they were very truthful about it. again, unlike some who would just pop in and pop out and i really didn't have a whole lot of credibility with some of those guys. >> now, a.b., i know you didn't get a chance to meet any journalists but you became kind of inadvertently famous. in fact, john's photograph, which ran over two full fudges fudges -- pages on the inside of "life" magazine didn't name any of the people on that tank. can you tell us how you came to realize you had been made famous? >> when i was b

european investment bank and asked him for his reaction i was so more than impressed i know him on a mccollum from former times long before he was a minister and i must say the way he developed over a month from all of a sudden the french leader then africa of a month the european leader and now he has brought himself in the position of a global leader it's amazing and it's very very encouraging for europe all in all this was a very good day for europe anyway. we saw him on american saying francis back he wanted to promote business obviously but he also wanted europe to move forward with a set of reforms which one was the most striking to you both i mean the announcement from his back was very credible but at the same time he could have said also europe a speck because i go back to the last ten or so davos meetings where the rest of the world looks a little bit of the sympathy of those poor europeans because they couldn't get their act together and this is the first time that we are here in davos and the europeans are really having a good show earlier today earlier on wednesday the german cha

over the last weeks and months and manuel mccollum has been left waiting he's eager to push on with grand plans for europe but his key partner the german chancellor has been busy with other things she's been struggling to form a new government at home. inevitably those struggles were a major issue when the two leaders face the press. marichal said she was optimistic she would soon reach a coalition with germany social democrats and i can see substantial areas of agreement notably regarding our european ambitions and i'm convinced that for that we need a stable government. cannot be realized alone and i've already said that several times they need to be accompanied by german ambitions. and those ambitions are high that's an e.u. summit last month merkel and mark kong pledged to draw up proposals for reforming the euro zone mccall has floated radical ideas a single budget a single finance minister for all member states merkel is more hesitant but on the wider vision for europe the two say they are agreed. it is a europe that must have a common foreign policy on strategic questions a europe

to stingo mccollum the she was good however up to tenth with the european football becoming a definite possibility. while hoffenheim took to the pitch without going up for the first time since his move to buy new nick and the european hopefuls travel to struggling bad at the same and expecting a win in the post or started well for those wins meant they opened the scoring on thirty nine minutes when sashed unhappiness cross was not in beit hanoun. it was the center back second goal. over the season in the perfect start to twenty eighty this side but after the break a goal of scramble sauter to deprecate so let's see equalize that but they meant one of. two snowboarding where american shaun white scored a perfect one hundred points in the men's half pipe world cup event in the colorado winter resort of snowmass now it was the second perfect score of white's career and landed the twice in the pick champion a place on the u.s. team for next month on china when tech games now if you know your snowboarding lingo then his last jump was a tomahawk and front side double twelve sixty. three . bu

to stingo mccollum the she was good one of our up to tenth with the european football becoming a definite possibility. the first one as they had trick for hand-overs nicholas full crew congrats to him it's time for our match day eighteen round up and we start braman visitors hoffenheim and you'll be in not having been consistent at all this season they have struggled to compete on all three fronts to top it off they sold striker sideshow wagner to buyer it's a kick off the roof of their off the brain with the side that booted hoffenheim from the german cup could they get some payback. hoffenheim and duty or not this man began life without front man's arm go back now with a trip north to better braman who went into the weekend in the relegation play off space and opposed back in the era started well certainly not recross for many who cannot say head home to center back second goal of the season giving him the perfect start for two thousand and eighteen job done at half time but after the break a goal not scramble so haile gebrselassie equalise relief to flow back or face but a disappointin

mccollum: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this legislation, which ignores the urgent need of the american people. the federal government's fiscal year started october 1 of last year. but instead of fulfilling a responsibility to fund our government in a too manyly manner, -- in a timely manner, president trump and the republicans spent months working to pass their tax scam. now, because they didn't do their jobs, mr. speaker, republicans are asking us to vote to kick the can down the road again. this is no way to run a government. the american people deserve immediate action on critical issues that matter to our country. we need a budget agreement in order to do that. we need to keep our government open. we need to meet the needs of the communities and the hardworking people. we need to enact responsible reforms that will save struggling pension plans. we need to provide disaster relief to our fellow americans who were hit hard by hurricanes and wildfires last year. we need to re-authorize the

the initiative is being supported from the highest echelons president in money where mccollum says one must preserve one's excellence and skills and that's why the baguette must be added to unesco's world cultural heritage list. i don't. desire any crowd. the nominees for the coveted british awards have been announced with five nominations thing i do a leap i has the best chances of winning a prize. i mean. that puts her ahead of superstar ed sheeran who's nominated in full categories including best song with shea preview rituals of britain's most important to music prizes in the world seventy is on february twenty first. the game would go in there . in the italian town of you've got a job a new carnival museum has been inaugurated located within the citadel of the area of carnival carriage builders workshops visitors can now see everything about the history of the famous celebration and while they're at it they can watch the engineers and their helpers working on the huge carnival figures and parade wagons besides various carnival the carnival of euro joe is among italy's most importa

and sputnik have already been a mccollum's firing line he denied both accreditation during his presidential campaign and later explained the move by labeling this channel sputnik as propaganda. nique russia today and have been influential and have several times truths about me and my complaint that's why they were not invited to my headquarters all media including russia had access to my campaign russia today and have not behaved as media outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda that is on that love the end of last year this channel branched out to be a french speaking world with the launch of very new this station r.t. fronts mediately calls quite the stir several french public figures published an open letter calling for r t france's license to be revoked they supported their claims by saying that r.t. has repeatedly face various allegations from the us and different european countries earlier we spoke with a political commentator who said that mccrone should be curbed by taking legal measures. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civi

france's president emmanuel mccollum has promised a more efficient system to process asylum seekers in cali but so far is little evidence that that that is happening the port city has seen more young people turning up in the hope of crossing the english channel to the u.k. from california gago has this report. playing for time in cali's industrials a place where asylum seekers have flocked to in the hope they may escape the limbo they face day in day out while they're here they are trapped many of them but if the months sleeping rough wherever they can you have snipping without any food. in the rod maybe we could sit here because distant because it's. just disturbs us. this is not life it's not life because living in the forest we have. so this is the place the location where one of the few just to be sure point was supposed to occur on thursday afternoon as you can see authorities are there and they've stopped it from happening and that's unkind a lot of anger from those who gathered here to be able to get some food. for months the riot police have been a regular presence here as are

my colleague, betty mccollum, told us about many chip children will have no place to go. you passed a bill but no place to go. so why don't republicans sit down and reach agreement? mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues across the aisle, don't shut down the government. i implore them, use your majority not to delay but to govern, and i tell them, democrats are still ready to work with you as we have been throughout to sit down and reach bipartisan compromise on our most pressing challenges. e voted to give you 120 days to do that. now you want some more time. you come to the door and ask for some cake and your neighbor says, come back tomorrow, and you come back tomorrow and you ask the same thing and he says, come back tomorrow and you go back the next day and he says the same thing, come back tomorrow. that's what the republicans are saying. come back tomorrow. come back tomorrow. come back tomorrow. but there has been no tomorrow. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. hoyer: vote against this c.r. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has e

mccollum: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this legislation, which ignores the urgent need of the american people. the federal government's fiscal year started october 1 of last year. but instead of fulfilling a responsibility to fund our government in a too manyly manner, -- in a timely manner, president trump and the republicans spent months working to pass their tax scam. now, because they didn't do their jobs, mr. speaker, republicans are asking us to vote to kick the can down the road again. this is no way to run a government. the american people deserve immediate action on critical issues that matter to our country. we need a budget agreement in order to do that. we need to keep our government open. we need to meet the needs of the communities and the hardworking people. we need to enact responsible reforms that will save struggling pension plans. we need to provide disaster relief to our fellow americans who were hit hard by hurricanes and wildfires last year. we need to re-authorize the

cheryl: the vice president speaking with michael mccollum.he two nations now considering walking together in the opening ceremonies. transfer its parts, kevin durand has joined elite company with his 20,000 points last night. knocking home number 20,000 by putting up 25 points in the first half against the l.a. clippers. durand getting a standing ovation. at 29 years and 103 days old to be exact, the second youngest of all time to hit the mark or the brian james and the only player in history to reach 20,000 before turning 29. kobe bryant, wilt chamberlain the only other three players to reach the mark before the old age of 30. the new york knicks and chicago bulls needed extra time to decide last night's game with a buzzer beating. bubbles pull away to win 122- 122-119. cheryl: also sometimes filming the action just isn't worth it after being ejected from last nights game, utah jazz player rodney hook might be getting a fine for the spirit fine for this pretty inactive phonon of a fan 10 while he was exiting the corner. so there is that. let

robert eugene mccollum. charles dennis mckee. bernard joseph mclaughlin. jane susan melbourne.ps. >> we remember them. suzanne marie, joseph kenneth miller. jewell courtney mitchell. james and morgan. eva mortensen. helga rachel mosey. richard palma and eddie. ingrid elizabeth mulroy, john mould i, sean kevin malloy, mary geraldine mercy. karen elizabeth noonan. thomas britton. >> we remember them. daniel emmett o'connor. mary denise o'neill. elise owen. gwyneth yvonne margaret 01. robert factor i. martha no one. laura abigail owen. robert penn newco. krista and michael papadopoulos. peter raymond pierce. i represent miriam lucas. >> we remember them. sarah susanna phillips. james andrew pitts. david flat. walter leonard porter. pamela lynn pozen. william pugh. ramses. and ball wrote on. so. she wrote on. and eli stratus. >> we remember them. jocelyn k arena. diane marie -- i represent louise rogers at syracuse university. susanna roller, mark rosenblum andrea victoria rosenthal, peter rosenthal, myra josephine royal, david ruben. >> we remember them. elise jean sarahsaid he, s

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mccollum: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this legislation, which ignores the urgent need of the american people. the federal government's fiscal year started october 1 of last year. but instead of fulfilling a responsibility to fund our government in a too manyly manner, -- in a timely manner, president trump and the republicans spent months working to pass their tax scam. now, because they didn't do their jobs, mr. speaker, republicans are asking us to vote to kick the can down the road again. this is no way to run a government. the american people deserve immediate action on critical issues that matter to our country. we need a budget agreement in order to do that. we need to keep our government open. we need to meet the needs of the communities and the hardworking people. we need to enact responsible reforms that will save struggling pension plans. we need to provide disaster relief to our fellow americans who were hit hard by hurricanes and wildfires last year. we need to re-authorize the

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mccollum: the failure of president trump and the republican-controlled congress do their work in good faith has serious consequences. governing by short-term continuing resolution did he priferse long-term certainty that they need to keep our safety first. secretary of defense has warned of severe harm of continuing resolution and the harm it has done to military readiness. t is time to work with us on a long-term budget deal that reopens our government and adequately funds our military and upholds our commitments. the shut down began at midnight that employees who serve will now be forced to work without pay and we thank them for their service. as the president has acknowledged, the republican inflicted shutdown means that our active military will not get id causing serious repercussions. i grew up in a military and i understand that the sacrifices. and democrats and republicans agree it is plain wrong to ask our men and women in uniform to put their lives on the line without pay. and that is why we have introduced the pay our military act of 2018. this provides for pay and death ben

mccollum, a member of the defense subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. mrk column: thank you, mr. speaker. -- ms. mccollum: thank you, mr. speaker. here we are again. the government is working with short-term continuing resolutions and as we approach another deadline to fund the government next week the republican majority is spending time to vote for a third time on a defense appropriations bill that will not pass in the senate. the most basic fundamental responsibility of congress is to provide adequate and timely funding for the entire federal government, both our national defense and our domestic priorities for a full fiscal year. the fact that this bill is on the floor for a third time highlights the absolute failure of the republican majority to advance a responsible budget process. mr. speaker, voting on the same bill three times is the very definition of playing political games. the american people deserve better than this continuing republican chaos. democrats and republicans agree. we

mccollum: the failure of president trump and the republican-controlled congress do their work in good faith has serious consequences. governing by short-term continuing resolution did he priferse long-term certainty that they need to keep our safety first. secretary of defense has warned of severe harm of continuing resolution and the harm it has done to military readiness. t is time to work with us on a long-term budget deal that reopens our government and adequately funds our military and upholds our commitments. the shut down began at midnight that employees who serve will now be forced to work without pay and we thank them for their service. as the president has acknowledged, the republican inflicted shutdown means that our active military will not get id causing serious repercussions. i grew up in a military and i understand that the sacrifices. and democrats and republicans agree it is plain wrong to ask our men and women in uniform to put their lives on the line without pay. and that is why we have introduced the pay our military act of 2018. this provides for pay and death ben

i want david mccollum, david ignatius, those are weird books so i am getting together a collection ofthere are two things i wanted to say. number one, i wrote a book, nothing like david ignatius, didn't become a bestseller, it was living beyond ourselves and the reason i wrote that is because everybody is in a rush to retire, and the truth is we do live beyond our age because there's not a lot for older people to do unless they have done something if you have become a well-known writer or artist or have some particular skill, you are no longer needed. there is nothing for you at this particular point. you are just there. it was interesting to me because i didn't realize, i read one of your books and enjoyed it very much, but many years ago my husband who is not a reader got on the train, we were living in new york and he got on the train to white plains and struck up a conversation and this man said he had written a book, the spy came in from the cold and my husband said that is a strange title and he said to my husband my name is david cornwall and gave his phone number and said why

mccollum: we need a budget deal that teeps our government open, meets our commitment to hard-working families and need to re-authorize community health centers which would otherwise be forced to layoff health care workers, we need to have responsible pension reform and pass the dream act. there is bipartisan support for these priorities. the only thing standing in the way is republicans' failure to govern responsibly. mr. speaker, it is time for president trump and the republicans to end the chaos and work across the aisle to meet the urgent needs of the american people. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, texas businesses are putting more money in their employee' pockets because of the tax cuts and jobs act. companies that employ tens of thousands of my constituents in north texas are giving bonuses to their employees, increasing investment in their operations and donatin