mr. blackwell's infamous best- and worst-dressed lists. best dressed, names like audrey hepburn, kate middleton, and nicole kidman. but it's blackwell's dressing-downs that are truly classics. >> i'm a huge fan of the first list, when he chose judy garland. he said, "a brilliant talent, but apparently keeps all her fashionable clothes in that trunk she's always singing about." >> i actually remember this one. you had barbra streisand -- "a shoddy, secondhand rose looking for a tour guide in brooklyn." ouch. mr. blackwell knows from brooklyn. he's born there -- richard selzer. in the late 1930s, he moves to hollywood, a teenager dreaming of stardom. for years, richard gets bit parts in "b" movies. then he meets eccentric millionaire producer howard hughes. hughes casts him in a minor role in his film "vendetta." richard ends up on the cutting-room floor, but along the way, hughes offers the kid some advice -- "change your last name from selzer to blackwell." "blackwell" stuck. >> "blackwell" stuck. >> the acting career, not so much. in 1949

mr. blackwell and mr. adams moved and seconded respectively. now the issues before the commission, is there any discussion of the by-laws? -- bylaws? they seem to straightforward to me, as well. is there a move to call at will? if there is no discussion we can call the question. the question is called, all those in favor of the -- of adopting the bylaws say aye. opposed, say nay. the bylaws of been adopted unanimously. the next topic is a forward-looking question and , that is what topics might the commission wish to address in future meetings? i took the liberty of just putting together some ideas on paper, just as a starting point. and that is all this is, just to get the discussion moving. i will pass these up to people and read them into the record. again, this is nothing more than a topic -- my thoughts on a topic. i would invite any additions or deletions or we can scrap it entirely. just laying out a topic for the commission to think about. i wrote down five possible ways to divide the subject matter. one would be accuracy of voter rolls

mr. blackwell: mr. chairman. commissioner gardner just under scored a point that i was making in my opening remarks and in the yale, policy review. some of it is not within the per -- the purview of this commission, but you know, we we , know and we defend and we advance the right to vote, but we don't talk enough about the duty to vote. and if you take a look at what is happening in our school systems across the country, there is less and less and less attention being given to civics and citizenship. and as a consequence, people are losing in a free society, the encouragement to exercise the duty to vote. and to deal with the any reasonable requirement to make sure that the legally cast votes are not diluted. i'm the chairman of the international foundation for electoral systems. we get most of our funding from the usaid, and other allied countries. and we conduct elections across, across the globe. canada is coming up in august. and liberia in october. and we in fact strongly advocate voter id. we were in the f

blackwell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am honored to be a member of this commission. i want to thank you, vice president pence, for your leadership in this endeavor and express my gratitude to all of my colleagues for their willingness to undertake this important work. this commission and its task is to identify every threat to the integrity of the electoral process, both foreign and domestic. we are to serve the american people by enumerating the vulnerabilities of our electoral system and recommending countermeasures to protect the voting rights of the american people, as guaranteed by the constitution. i would like to offer into the record my work of constitutional law on this issue. i co-authored this work with a respected constitutional attorney from indiana. and our law review article is entitled "the other voting right, protecting every citizen's vote by safeguarding the integrity of the ballot box," published by the yale law and policy review. we set forth that one way to articulate the right to vote secured by the constitution is that every properly registere

mr. putin. we get more on that from cnn's victor blackwell. >> i never met putin. don't know who putin is. >> reporter: it is a claim president donald trump made many times during the campaign. >> i never met putin. i don't think i've ever met him. i never met him. >> you'd know it if you did. >> i think so. >> reporter: the g20 summit in germany will offer the first opportunity for president trump to meet slad leer pvladimir put face-to-face. >> have you met vladimir putin? >> yes. >> you have? >> one time, yes. long time ago. >> reporter: mr. trump didn't say during the interview when or what circumstances the two men met. days before their meeting in hamburg, there are unsettled claims about their history. the white house said they've spoken by phone at least three types since the 2016 election, but on conversations before the election, more contradictions. in july 2016, candidate trump said this. >> i have nothing to do with putin. i've never spoken to him. i don't know anything about him, other than he will respect me. >> reporter: that contradicts what he sai

mr. speaker, i rise today to honor one of college station, texas, who passed away on july 25, 2017. emma was born on september 15, 1927 in blackwell, oklahoma. he was raised by his mother, mary, in bowling green, missouri. growing up during the worst of the great depression, he experienced poverty firsthand and lived in juan-room house. to provide for her son, she worked as a maid for $2 a week. to help the family, he worked any odd job he could find. during this time, an act of kindness from a member of the local rotary club would change his life. he was enamored with baseball that -- and ed noticed he loved baseball but could not afford the equipment. so he sent a bat, a glove and a ball to emmel. the care that ed and the rotary member showed emmel put his life on a better course. he valued their support once stating, quote, i could have been a very rebel use child -- excuse me -- i could have been very rebelous as a child. things like poverty can make you grow up with some resentment but all of a sudden i had a whole town with surrogate fathers and it motivated me to become beater example. the leaders of the community who we re