. >> mr. colÓnis going to ask us questions and then i will move to recess the subcommittee until we have returned from the votes. you are recognized for five minutes. see this for the administrative law judge for the review despite the wishes of the president and i've long had serious concerns about this including the agreement used to try to hide the scope of the transaction that's why the ranking member and i wrote two weeks ago asking them to review how these affect diversity and competition. however, last night the president said and i quote it's unfair they wouldn't approve the sinclair broadcast merger this would have been a great and much-needed conservative voice for and of the people liberals can fake news, nbc gets approved much bigger .-full-stop sinclair, disgraceful, "-end-double-quote. the only thing i find distasteful is that they try to undermine the integrity of dedicated journalists wildly simply trying to amplify his message at the expense of local news across the country. so what

miss gonzalez-colon: thank you, mr. speaker, and thank you, mr. roe, for visiting the island. this is the first time ever a committee from veterans affairs from this house of representatives vied the island, first time ever. i thank you for that, your leadership, and your commitment and the ranking member for doing so in the last month. i speak -- i rise today to speak in support of my bill, h.r. 5938, the veterans service vet -- serving veterans act of 2018. this bill seeks to alleviate chronic staffing shortages that currently affect the department of veterans' affairs and hinders the ability to serve our veterans in an effective and timely manner. this issue never fails to come up in those meetings with veterans reciting -- residing in puerto rico and it's often discussed by my colleagues here in the house. h.r. 5938 seeks a remedial option to this issue by doing two things. first, amending section 20 of the choice act of 2017 to include the military occupation specialties of soon to be discharged service members that can respond to vay can positions at the v.a. in the recr

mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the -- lewoman from poirt reek, puerto rico, miss gonzalez-colon, for five minutes. miss gonzalez-colon: on june 27, i was joined by more than 40 mibs members of this house 6246, oducing h.r. 42 -- the puerto rico mission act of 2018. that number has since grown to almost 50 members. this is truly a bipartisan bill that sets forth a process that -- result in the formal into a permanent union with the rest of the states. will help puerto rico who twice in the past six years have overwhelmingly voted in 97% and 61% expressing their political will to join their ellow americans as equal inure union -- uniyofpblet after 101 ears as american citizens, puerto rico was denied the same rights and responsibilities as the llow citizens in states. puerto ricans did not enjoy a democratic form of government at the national level because we can vote for the president and we can vote for the vice president the of the united sta we don't have a voting representation here in this congress that every day passes laws that affect us and affect our future. the lack of

mr. jefferson. [laughter] >> it's a great question. i think the idea -- we use the word and quite properly, deportation. that is what colonization would be. i think jefferson had a fantasy, wanted to believe that that would be consensual. one of his concerns about the failure to resolve the slavery problem and to reach a final solution, which would be -- which would be based on the theory of colonization -- he never joined the colonization society. towas completely stupid think about colonization, although people continue doing so even into the civil war. practical, implementing it was impossible. it would have to be a national project. that means that the man who uses the defensive states as a bulwark would have to mobilize the national government to solve the slavery problem. southerners -- this was a knot that southerners could not unwind. jefferson had a theory and he insisted until his death, if anybody else would get it and then act on it, the problem would be solved. passed,more time that the more difficult it would be to do it. that it wouldly cost a lot to get rid of slaves, whose value is increasing every let the conne

mr. jefferson. >> it's a great question. i think the idea of -- we use the word and i think quite properly, deportation. that's what colonization would be. i think he wanted to believe that that would be consental. one of the concerns about the failure to resolve the slavery problem and to reach a final solution which would be based on the principle of colonization in theory. he never joined the colonization society. but as late as 1824 when it was stummed to think of -- stupid to think of colonization. >> lincoln. >> the practical implementing it was impossible. one of the reasons it was impossible, it would have to be a national project and that would mean that the man who used the rights of states as a defensive bulwark against the institution of slavery would have had to mobilized the national government to solve the slavery problem. this was a knot that southerners couldn't unwind. i think the way you put it in terms of brass tack reality is perfect. jefferson had a theory and he insisted until his death that if anybody else would get it and then act on it the problem would be solved but the more time that passed, the more