mr. abraham. our third witness today is mr. david becker, executive director and co-founder of the center for election innovation and research. mr. becker founded ceir to increase voter turnout and give election officials the tools they need tone sure all eligible voters can vote in a system with maximum integrity. prior to finding cier, he was director of the program at the poo charitable trust where he worked on election administration. the reforms included using technology to provide voters with information they need to cast a ballot. mr. becker received both his undergraduate and law degrees from university of california at berkeley. our final witness today from my home state of texas is dr. dan wall 5: wallach, rice scholar at the baker institute for public policy at rice university. dr. wallach's research covers a variety of topics in computer security. this includes electronic voting system security where he served as the director of a ntf funded research center, a center for correct usable reliable auditable and transpa

mr. abraham. the third witness today is the executive director and cofounder of the center for election innovation and research. to increase voter turnout and give officials the tools they need to ensurneeded to ensure ah balls can vote conveniently in a system with maximum integrity. prior, he was the director of the elections program at the charitable trust where he worked on reforms and election administration that included using technology to provide voters with information they need to cast the ballot. he received his undergraduate and law degree from the university at california berkeley. the final witness today from my home state of texas is a professor in the department of computer science and a scholar at the baker institute for public policy. the research covers a variety of topics in computer security that includes electronic voting system security where he served as the director of a multi-institution research center for correct reliable and transparent elections. he also served as a m

mr. abraham lincoln. [applause] >> oh what an honor. what an honor to be with you today. will tell you a bit about my life. here,old i was born right february 12, 1809. i don't remember my birth, and you probably don't from your birth -- don't remember your birth. here.lot of work move over to illinois, did a lot of work there. move on to a place called illinois. todd.he met a lady, mary she advised me to this cotillion . i went to this cotillion, and i walked in, and there was this mary todd. i was smitten white away -- right away. i looked around at all these gentlemen were dancing. i said i would -- i said i would ask her to dance, but i don't know how to dance. so i looked at all these gentlemen, and every one of them had on white gloves. i had white gloves, so all the while i'm putting on my way -- white gloves, i'm seeing what these gentlemen are doing. every last one of them had his left hand upholding the ladies right hand. i said i'm going to do this. and i did. over to where she was and i took her by the hand and said oh todd, i would like to dance with the wors

mr. abraham lincoln. [applause] >> oh, what an honor. what an honor to be with you today.ay i tell you a bit about my life? i am told i was born right here, february 12, 1809. i don't remember my birth, and you probably don't from your s. i was born here, did a lot of work here, moved over to illinois, did a lot of work there, move on to a place called illinois. there i met a lady mary todd. she had been invited to this cotillion. understand a cotillion is a fancy name for a dance. i went to this cotillion, and i walked in, and there was this mary todd. oh, i was smitten right away, to you was. i looked around at all these gentlemen were dancing. i said i'm going to ask her to dance but i don't know how to , dance. the only dancing i have ever done is behind a mule. so i looked at all these gentlemen, and every one of them had on white gloves. i had white gloves, so all the while i'm putting on my way white gloves, i'm seeing with these gentlemen are doing. every last one of them had his left hand upholding the ladies right hand. i said i'm going to do this. and i did. i w

mr. abraham, is recognized for his questions. mr. abraham:00 you, mr. chairman. we'll get back on track here. secretary mr. schedler -- secretary schedler, let's go to the security of the voting systems in all states, you being the past present of the secretaries of state. you have i think some knowledge of this subject. do you think it's good, bad? average? secretary schedler: congressman, i would say it's good. we did a survey before this hearing and got a response from 19 or 20 states to try to ascertain that. aside from my knowledge, and i don't profess to be an expert on every state system, but there is a lot of similarities, a lot of differences in the states. that's what makes it so unique. i feel very comfortable, again, in the representative from california who appears stepped out, keep in mind the democratic national convention the component that was hacked was the campaign side of it. each and every one of us like me is elected, all of you have used a campaign commercial list to determine a mail issue or walk list in a neighborhood or whatever it may b

mr. abraham, kindly ake the chair. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h.r. 5931 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to provide for the prohibition on cash payments to the government of iran and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose earlier today a request for a recorded vote on amendment number 5 printed in house report 114-781 offered by the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, had been postponed. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote an amendment 5 printed in house report 114-781 by the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, on which further proceedings were postponed, and on which the nays prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 5 printed in house report 114-781, offered by mr. engel of new york. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted

mr. ibrahim -- abraham. >> thank you mr. chairman thank you all for your testimony. mr. said to you emphasize that voters should feel confident in our voting system and they certainly have heard a lot of messages about the importance of that confidence here today and how it will lead to greater participation and certainly that's good for democracy. i think just getting information out to the public with the voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet is going to hell. there's a misconception about that. i am from oregon and we all vote by mail in oregon. we have done that for more than a decade. the very secure processor that also makes it very easy for oregonians to vote. the secretary of state's office mails paper ballots to each and every registered voter couple of weeks before the election along with the voter pamphlet with the information about the candidates and initiatives on the ballot so they have plenty of time to not only studied the issues that fill out their ballots and get them and to be tallied by the local election offices. there are priv

abraham lincoln -- maybe that wasn't auspicious, mr. chairman, because he only served one term and couldn't get elected back home. he was a whig at the time. he spent his time worried about things like the wilmont proviso, trying to end the slave traffic in washington, d.c., the nation's capital, and fighting the slaveocracy in trying to move this country to limit and ultimately abolish this practice. that's what we spent our time doing. we're spending our time trying to pillory somebody about how she managed, handled her e-mails while she was traveling the world on behalf of this country trying to restore u.s. creditability and foreign policy after the incredible damage in done eight years with the previous administration. i guess if i were in my friend'' situation, i'd grasp at this straw too. mr. herring, my friend mr. jordan tried to suggest that you, the fbi, have handled this case very differently than the normal course of justice to an american citizen. i guess because the high profile nature you handled it very carefully. is tha

mr. trump is totally right. we did not see churchill telling hitler where we were going to land on the north coast of france. we don't see abraham lincoln telling robert e. lee where they're going to march during richmond. i mean, it's common place to keep these things secret. now, what mrs. clinton is doing is making fun of nixon's so-called secret plan which actually did end the war in vietnam, but she hated nixon and made chance of him every chance she could be. trump is totally right, we don't broadcast our strategy to our enemi enemies. >> trump is saying the one thing that is also out there is you don't want to, at this stage, rule anything out. a number of generals were saying you don't want to embolden them, right? >> hillary should know about drawing lines in the sand from the president, right? so listen, i think the american public these days, the man to know the outline of what is going to happen, we don't need to know the secret sauce. because war is so public and we see it on our tv these days and social media, they kind of want to know a general understanding. that's it. >> yeah, i think donald is wrong. the americ

abraham lincoln -- maybe that wasn't auspicious, mr. chairman, because he only served one term and couldn't get elected back home. he was a whig at the time. he spent his time worried about things like the wilmont proviso, china and the slave traffic in washington, d.c., the nation's capital, and fighting the slaveocracy in trying to move this country to limit and ultimately abolish this practice. we're spending this time trying to pillory somebody about how she managed, handled her e-mails while she was traveling the world on behalf of this country trying to restore u.s. creditability and foreign policy after the incredible damage in done eight years with the previous administration. i guess if i were in my friend'' situation, i'd grasp at this straw too. mr. herring, my friend mr. jordan tried to suggest that you, the fbi, have handled this case very differently than the normal course of justice to an american citizen. i guess because the high profile nature you handled it very carefully. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> it was diff

mr.: nixon. in the election of 1860, abraham lincoln said the question was whether this nation could exist half-slave or half-free. in the election of 1960, and with the world around us, the question is whether the world will exist half-slave or half-free, whether it will move in the direction of freedom, in the direction of the road that we are taking, or whether it will move in the direction of slavery. i think it will depend in great measure upon what we do here in the united states, on the kind of society that we build, on the kind of strength that we maintain. we discuss tonight domestic issues, but i would not want that to be any implication to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with mr. khrushchev for survival. mr. khrushchev is in new york, and he maintains the communist offensive throughout the world because of the productive power of the soviet union itself. the chinese communists have always had a large population. but they are important and dangerous now because they are mounting a major effort within their own country. the kind of country we have here, the kind of

mr. john column who will read the immortal words written by abraham lincoln. please join me in welcoming him. [applause] >> thank you. four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper we should do this, but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. the cavemen living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note or remember what we say here. it can never forget what they did here. it is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who f

mr. trump: government corruption will end. honesty will be restored. republicans as a party, and remember this, folks, people forget. republicans are the party of abrahamcoln. come november 8, we will once again have a government that is of, by, and for the american people. we will make america prosperous again. we will make america safe again. you will be able to walk down the street of your inner cities and not be shot. we will make america strong again. and we will make america great again. thank you, everyone. thank you. november 8, get out and vote. god bless you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] c-span continues on the road to the white house. >> we are going to get things done. one great have american future, our potential is unlimited. of thed, live coverage debates on c-span, the c-span p and c-span.org. on tuesday, october 4, mike pence and tim kaine debate in virginia. universitywashington hosts a second presidential debate, leading up to the third and final debate. it takes place at

abraham lincoln's bible. it's part of the library's mr. ction and was used by obama at his inauguration. the budget for the library of 162 million -- excuse and she has on, plans to digitize the precious library of the congress. it's 162 million items. here's a little bit of ms. in yesterday. ng >> i must have admit that it is imagine the o little eight-year-old girl with a bookls who checked out called "bright april" over and until the er again, fines came in, that she is today, and it feels like yesterday when i a store frontr at branch of the chicago public zucker and watched judy on the floor leading story time or children with autism, watching her interact with the children and, in turn, seeing reactions demonstrated the power and potential of the librarian's work. and 40 years later, it is an onor to be nominated by president obama and confirmed by the united states senate, to greatest f the institutions of our nation. humbled y grateful and by this selection. now, some people have noted that i am making history as the first woman and the first african-american african-american. [c

mr. davis: amazing to learn amazing historical facts. as my district, i'm lucky enough to represent part of abraham's lincoln's congressional district. so the history is something that our textbooks teach but we come to the house floor to learn about courageous people like judge thomason who served in the executive branch and legislative branch and serving the judicial branch. it's a testament and i commend my colleague, mr. o'rourke for bringing this to our attention and allowing us to rename the courthouse and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 5873. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. miller: i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 5162. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: a bill to amend

mr. speaker. and i want to thank the gentleman from florida for yielding me some time to speak on this important bill. president abraham lincoln once famously charged all americans with the responsibility to care for him who shall have borne the battle. if you speak with a veteran today, you will learn that the quality of health care provided to them many times does not reflect this duty. in recent years we've learned of multiple incidents where the v.a. failed to provide emergency care to veterans in need. in addition to the incident that happened if my home state, another notable incident occurred in new mexico in the year 2014 when a veteran collapsed in a cafeteria of a v.a. facility and ultimately died when the v.a. refused to transport him 500 yards across the campus to the e.r. my legislation will ensure that every enrolled veteran who arrives at the emergency department of a v.a. medical facility seeking emergency treatment is assessed and treated in order to prevent further injury or death. this is accomplished by applying the statutory requirements of the emergency medical treatment and labor act or emtala, f