mr. collins. - mr. collins, i'm mr. burns. - howdy, mr. burns. just been telling joyce how much i admire your home, it's beautiful. - thank you. - you know, you have a lot of beautiful homes here in california. - not as nice as you have in oklahoma. - oh yes, they are and speaking of los angeles, there's only one thing better than rubbing elbows -- - [joyce] daddy. daddy, mr. burns was speaking of oklahoma. - oh yes, in oklahoma they have a lot of oil men and they have a lot of indians. and speaking of oklahoma and speaking of indians, it reminds me -- - [ronnie] dad. mr. collins was talking about los angeles. - oh no, no, ronnie, please. let your father talk about oklahoma.

mr. collins: it means default. stephanie: then there you go. mr. ant percentage of the high-young energy sector are, the big, integrated oil services companies that are going to default. any as much as half of them default. erik: forget restructured in some way. mr. collins: get restructured in some way. the problem is the recoveries. historically, the energy sector has been considered a defensive, asset-rich, high-quality sector. this time around it is different. recoveries home default are going to be significant -- recoveries upon default going to be significantly lower. stephanie: energy is 30% of the high-young market. mr. collins: was. was at one point. stephanie: was. i have yield participants i'm relatively small group if there are a number of defaults, could investors go along with them? carl icahn being one of them. maybe he is bulletproof come but there are hedge fund investors that are hedged and wedged in here. mr. collins: i do not think it is a huge impact on the global market. it is not a systematic risk. energy was 16%. now it is do

mr. collins, this is mrs. burns. - [collins] well, howdy, ma'am. - well, how do you do, mr. collins? sweetheart? - [george] yeah. - would you sing for me? - sure, i'd be glad to. - (singing) oh from time to time (mumbling) blessings come from above. - oh, it's too beautiful, i can't do it. - (singing) (mumbling) lovers are lucky -- - [george and gracie] (singing) in love! - oh, i couldn't. you know, when sugar throat sings, i just melt. i've gotta hear one more note. (audience laughs) - [george] (singing) i -- - oh! (audience laughs) - ronnie, mr. collins just left - oh, thanks, dad. - and sweetheart -- - ha! - [george] what's the matter with her? - well, dad, haven't you noticed what's happened all day? lou and edie had a fight and they made up. and the mortons had a fight and they made up. and mother thinks if you don't have a fight you can't be happy. - so that's it, huh? i'll go in and make her very happy. (playful music) gracie? - ha! - we're going to have the biggest argument anybody ever had. - we are? - [george] yeah, we are. you know your coffee this morning? it was atrociou

mr. collins? no. no, i didn't see anything like that. sarge is looking for volunteers to take an inmate back to prison after he testifies downtown. sure. thanks, boss. you got it, reagan. uh, which prison? i think he's from lincoln correctional. what? (quietly): would you cut the crap? hmm? you know my das locked up over there. yeah, i remember you told me that. i know you think you're helping. you're not. look, you have to talk to him at some point. no. i don't think that i need to talk to him at some point. it's not gonna be a tearful reunion, okay? not everyone comes from a perfect family, reagan. hey, trust me, we have our moments. you ever been betrayed by the person you trust most in the world? you ever find out that everything you grew up believing was a lie? no. you know what? if i need someone to fix my life, i'm gonna call a shrink, not a cop. frannie: you're saying that cop strangled christopher? his death has en ruled a homicide. however, it's still unclear if officer cutter's use of force was... justified. meaning he could s

mr. collins. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i rise in strong opposition to this rule and in strong opposition to the underlying legislation. in short, this is a lousy bill. at the end of last year, republicans and democrats came together to pass four major pieces of legislation that were sent to president obama's desk and enacted into law. we passed a bipartisan budget agreement, a multi year tax package, a highway bill and legislation to re-authorize the elementary and secondary education act that had all been stalled for years. that's how congress is supposed to work, mr. speaker. and quite frankly i thought at the end of last year that maybe these successes would be contagious and would become the norm to actually work together in a bipartisan way and to pass meaningful legislation that would actually become law. but this republican leader

mr. collins. detectives green and cassidy. we need to ask you about some pictures you took last night at the parks conservancy dinner. which pictures? hello! big smile! lovely. thank you. pictures of nicole bailey. i got a few of her. could we see them, please? as long as you're being nice about it, sure. they're in this camera. use this button to scroll. don't touch anything else. hello! big smile. lovely! (green) there she is. hello! big smile! thank you. (cassady) this looks promising. could be her hook-up. [cell phone ringing] 'scuse me. who is with nicole in this picture? someone gives me a look like that, i "amscray." okay, would you mind emailing us these photos? sure. all right, thanks. nicole's phone dump confirms she called the senator at 9:05. but right after that, she made two more phone calls to a trina bailey, stepdaughter. senator's kid from his first marriage. that was about ten minutes after those photos were taken. wonder what took her attention off mr. hot sauce. it was money. she just got off the phone with

mr. collins' side of the story, and we'll talk to her. hey, i didn't do anything wrong! we didn' say you did. i didn't do anything wrong. we just want to talk to you. okay, how did this all get started? it's no big deal, okay? get off me. hey, hey, hey, hey! would you just get off?! hey, calm down! hey, i didn't do anything ong, man! what the hell are you doing?! you're going in for disorderly conduct. i didn't do anything! you're going in for disorderly conduct. what the hell are you doing, man?! they're hurting daddy. it's okay. there is no need for that. alex... please. this is a private matter. you made it a public matter when you brought it out on the street. (garbled radio transmission) all you damn cops evero is make things worse. (garbled radio transmission) (siren toots and wails) we respond, diffuse the situation, and we're the bad guys? domestics are like a box of chocolates. you never know what you're gonna get. yeah, i just feel bad for that little girl. yeah, she didn't win the lottery in the parent department. yeah. know how that feels. just got another le

mr. collins: thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise in support of h.r. 3016 and i want to thank the chairman for leadership and his leadership. as which heard today, this is something that truly brings us together. as someone who continues to serve in the air force and looking at my brothers and sisters in arms, this is something we should be about. today is good also to thank my colleague from ohio, mr. wenstrup, for bringing this important legislation to the floor, including language regarding postdelivery care service and want to thank dr. roe that would extend the courage postdelivery care to 42 days. female veterans face unique challenges, especially when many of the services available for them are designed for males. one of the most significant problems female veterans face is access to health care. currently the v.a. is authorized to provide up to seven days of postdelivery care for female veterans and newborn babies. mr. roe's amendment will expand the coverage for 42 day, the length the v.a. currently provides for

mr. baxter. collins, international press. hicks, the daily press. we play golf, mr. baxter. oh, well, i suppose this is about that gambling situation. yes. would you care to make a statement? well, it's a little premature, and there's nothing really i can say right now, but we are working on it, and when i do have something definite-- you may sell your ticket? my ticket? have you put a price on it yet? what are you talking about? mr. baxter, maybe you'd better open that telegram. "you are the holder of a ticket on..." now, look. if this is some kind of a joke, it's in very poor taste. it's no joke, mr. baxter. we got it over the press wire. collins: and you can't keep it a secret, mr. baxter. we even have the name of the horse your ticket drew. bonnie boy, isn't it? well, uh, yes. that's--that's what it says right here, but i don't know-- makes your ticket worth a small fortune. and if the horse wins, it could go upwards of a quarter of a million. wait a minute. i haven't even bought any tickets. what's more, as a member of the anti-gambling committee-- anti-gambling committ

mr. collins: eeg from colorado who cited two cases where existing law and procedure, fraudulent joinder of bad faith insurance claims was claimed and actually succeeded, the proof is right there, the statute does not need to be amended, it's working already. and that's why we don't need to include bad faith insurance cases in the wrongdoers protection anth from multi state and multinational corporations. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. . mr. buck: i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and yield back. the chair: the question son the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the oes have it. mr. cartwright: we ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania will e postponed. mr. buck: i move that the

collins: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that proceedings under the call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise to speak on an amendment that i introduced last week, amendment number 3140, which is a tripartisan amendment to the energy policy modernization act, which is the pending legislation. i introduced the bill -- the amendment last week with senators klobuchar and king as my lead cosponsors. our amendment would support the role that the forests in this country can play in helping to meet our nation's energy needs. the carbon benefits of force biomass are clearly established, yet current policy uncertainty could end up jeopardizing rather than encouraging investments in working forests, harvesting operations, bioenergy, would products, and paper manufacturing. biomass energy is sustainable, responsible, renewable, and economically significant as an energy source. many states are already relying on biomas

mr. collins said, he's unique in our history. for people to think that he's going to help them or help the country, what are they -- how are -- what are they basing this on? he is the 1%? he said in his speeches, if you listen to those, which they are very interesting, lately, he said his favorite thing is money, etc. let e never fails to everyone know, maybe several times during the speech, how much he's worth. he holds grudges as everyone can see from his speeches. he's a lightweight himself. let's face it. he has nothing to offer the american people. people are being buffaloed. i find it very interesting that a lot of the trump supporters calling in to c-span mention that they support -- they either support bernie sanders or trump. now, what could be the two farthest things? it shows that somebody -- people want the outside candidate. host: pindell, jump in. guest: you can walk around anywhere in new hampshire and run into an independent voter who is really trying to struggle with a decision on not only which candidate they ar

mr. collins: as erie county executive -- i was the one in charge of the emergency response and one of the first people on the scene. the plane crashed less than a mile from my house. and i will never forget what i saw in the grief of the families who lost loved ones that fateful night. over the past seven years, flight 3407 families have been relentless in the fight to achieve one level of aviation safety for all airline carriers. from new training standards to guidelines that prevent pilot fatigue. on this seventh anniversary, we remember those who died that night and reinforce our commitment to ensure the safety measures, these -- measures these families have fought so hard to enact will stay in place. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the democratic whip task force on poverty, income inequality and opportunity

collins. >> thank you mr. chairman. doctor, thank you for your many years of public service and all that you are doing to expedite generic drug applications in order to make prescription drugs more affordable for consumers. i know that you're familiar with the investigation, the the aging committee is doing into the sudden very aggressive price spikes that some companies have implemented on drugs that have been on the market for literally decades. one drug is 63 years old and yet there has been a 5000% increase in its price by a company that invests not one dime into the research and development that led to this drug. i'm concerned that our current regulatory structure doesn't take into account situations where it there is essentially a market failure because the population of patients may be small, there is no generic application, whether it is pending or not. it just has not happened. now i know the fda currently provides express lane review for certain generic drug applications including first generic and those that

mr. earnest: i was in the meeting, obviously, i was standing right here. i'm not sure what senator kirk, senator collins, senator blunt or senator coates had to say about it. we'll do a couple more. hands in the back. jordan. reporter: thanks. back to gitmo. we were told earlier today that it was outreach torrell advantage congressional parties on the white house's plan. i was wondering if you could expand on which members were warned about the plan before it was released and who did the outreach and whether the president has personally called members of congress about the plan? mr. earnest: let me check on that for you. i know there was extensive congressional consultation that occurred before the plan was formally released. but let me see if i can get you some greater detail about how that took place. reporter: as you mentioned, you've given congress the plan that ask asked for, as you put it, and the administration is citing the broadband on spending money to, quote, to move detainees to the u.s. as why you can't give a specific site. but the same law, the ndaa, inspections have said in this report t

collins? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. woodcock, first, let me thank you for your many years of public service and all that you're doing to expedite generic drug applications in order to make prescription drugs more affordable for consumers. i know that you're familiar with the investigation the aging committee is doing in to the sudden, very aggressive price spikes that some companies have implemented on drugs that have been on the market for literally decades. one deraprim is 63 years old, and yet there's been a 5,000 percent increase in its price by a company that invested none one dime into the research and development that led to this drug. so, i'm concerned that our current regulatory structure doesn't take into account situations where there is essentially a market failure. because the population of patients may be small. there's no generic application. whether it's pending or not. it just hasn't happened. now, i know that the fda currently provides an express lane review for certain generic drug applications, inclu

mr. chairman. thank you, dr. king. >> senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, dr. king, and congratulations, again, on your nomination. essa includes some innovation that is an assessment pilot program which i co-authored with senator sanders which ought to tell you something about the breadth of support that the program has. this is a pilot program that would allow seven states to develop alternative models for assessment. one such model could be proficiency based, which northern new england is particularly interested in. and the law allows seven states, as i mentioned, to participate in the demonstration project. what are your plans for implementing this pilot program? >> thank you for the question and thank you for your leadership on this issue. i think we are still in the early stages of gathering feedback and comment from stakeholders on areas where regulations or guidance will be helpful. as we work on the innovative assessment pilot, i think we have a good example to look towards as we discussed briefly in new hampshire. new hampshire i think is doing very g

collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director clapper, i suspect that this may be your last public global threat hearing before our committee. so, let me join with our colleagues in thanking you for your decades of service. you and i first met in 2004 when joe lieberman and i wrote the law that created the dni office, and i take special pride in the work that you're doing and want to thank you for all of your years of service. >> thank you very much, senator collins. >> let me follow-up on the questions that my colleague from maine just posed. is there actionable intelligence that would allow us to disrupt and interdict more of the heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin that is coming in from mexico than we are able to act on because of operational constraints? >> well, i discussed this morning before the senate armed services committee the testimony that general kelly, former recently retired as the commander of southern command. i heard him say on more than one occasion that, you know, had a lot of good intelligence on drug

mr. trump to decide what he'll do on the tax return front. >> okay. all right. new york republican congressman chris collinsupporter of donald trump as you just heard. thanks for joining us. >> happy to be with you, jake. >>> on the democratic side, a huge primary just two days away in south carolina. but has bernie sanders already given up on the palmetto state? plus, is the republican national committee plotting a plan to try to control donald trump? we will ask the chairman of the rnc coming up. (baseball on tv in background) with heart failure, danger is always on the rise. symptoms worsen because your heart isn't pumping well. (water filling room) about 50 percent of people die (dog whimpering) within 5 years of getting diagnosed. but there's something you can do. talk to your doctor about heart failure treatment options. because the more you know, the more likely you are... (dog whimpering) to keep it pumping. >>> welcome back. you can see the debate prep going on right behind me. we have more on our politics lead right now. it's just two days before democratic voters make their pick in south carolina

mr. earnest: i was in the meeting, obviously, i was standing right here. i'm not sure what senator kirk, senator collins, senator blunt or senator coates had to say about it. we'll do a couple more. hands in the back. jordan. reporter: thanks. back to gitmo. we were told earlier today that it was outreach torrell advantage congressional parties on the white house's plan. i was wondering if you could expand on which members were warned about the plan before it was released and who did the outreach and whether the president has personally called members of congress about the plan? mr. earnest: let me check on that for you. i know there was extensive congressional consultation that occurred before the plan was ormally released. but let me see if i can get you some greater detail about how that took place. reporter: as you mentioned, you've given congress the plan that ask asked for, as you put it, and the administration is citing he broadband on spending money to, quote, to move detainees to the u.s. as why you can't give a specific site. but the same law, the ndaa, inspections have said in this report tha

her from tim ellis and partner collin haynes. the couple offered to take care of fritta, who was disabled. >> she knows, i know, one knows this is one nightmare that mrs. underwood wouldn't want to wake up from. >> nine month of imprisonment and choking until fritta lost consciousness. tim ellis pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault and stealing fritta's social security checks. it included a photo, what fritta looked like. she was fed a sandwich a day. also the photos, of her chemically burned hands. she was forced to clean with >> i think that he really deserves to be punished for the way he treated me. >> the judge agreed. . >> it is suggested if the defendant were left to their own devices, the victim would be in a continued state of imprisonment today or possibly even diseased. fridayta celebrated softly when the judge sentenced him to half in prison. >> if i say anything, to the and kill me. >> she was not able to use the phone, was not able to communicate with other people in the apartment complex. obviously that was a systematic purpose to maintain control over her and to take money from her. >> now fridayta lives in a residents with other s

this was an effort that was championed by senators collins, klobuchar, ayotte, king, franken, daines, crapo and risch. you don't often see, mrresident, these large groups of senators coming together in a way that we have seen on this bill. some would look at the names that i just read off and say i didn't know they had anything to work on. but these issues have brought them together. this has truly been a team effort with members reaching out to one another, lining up behind each other's ideas, working with senator cantwell and i to ensure their adoption. and the best proof of that is simple review of our bill. right now the energy policy modernization act includes priorities sponsored or cosponsored by at least 62 members of the senate. when was the last time we saw that level of cooperation and collaboration? 62 members. think about it. more than three-fifths of the senate has contributed something to this energy bill. and we're not done processing the amendments yet. we're not done with that. my staff, and the staff of senator cantwell have been comparing notes about the feedback that we've been getting outside the chambe

mr. lacey. all right, brad. what is it? you have made me so proud. i'm afraid i would have to disappoint you, brad. the fact is i hardly even know brooke collins. next you'll tell me they airbrushed the smiles on the three-headed camel. good morning, john. good morning. dr. hendricks. my, it looks like you've lost some weight, sir. well, actually, i've put on a few pounds. and in all the right places. what do you think of this article, sir? extremely distasteful. my feelings exactly. look, i know how these tabloids exaggerate, and if it were solely up to me, wait a minute. are you saying i'm not going? sorry. too many parents have complained about that article. i know my mother was appalled. dr. hendricks, i've been looking forward to that trip. let me be blunt. the situation is even worse than that. the school board is going to be asking for your dismissal unless you sign this statement promising you won't be seeing this collins woman again. first you take away my trip, then they tell me who i can socialize with? so to speak, yes. i think this stinks. you can tell the board i don't appreciate them trying to push me around. also tell them john

mr. chairman. i wanted to continue along the lines senator nelson was talking about as you know, the cdc's decision of vector born diseases in ft. collins, colorado has been on the front line of studying. your opening presentation has proposed $18.8 billion to resummoned to the zika virus. can you give us more detail how you plan to spend that money. >> because the issue of testing for zika is something that is occurring with the cdc, in terms of ft. collins, that's where a lot of the testing is occurring. it's a part of what that money is about, is making sure that states will have the capacity to test. for any woman who has gone to mexico, and know the estimates are 450,000 pregnant women travel to these regions where zika is. if they come back, they won't necessarily know, because 80% of people don't know you have the disease. you most likely will be tested and we recommend you're tested. if you've gone to this region. a lot of the money is about making sure that the states are going to have that testing capability. senator grassley and i introduced the ace kids act. our bill now has 30 co sponsors. it would improve care for children

collins and others have expressed their concerns over the proposals effect ony adverse minority and religious content creators. i wish they had listened to these instead of plodding ahead. >> thank you. riley. mr. o'reilly: over the years, i have spent considerable time on policy issues involving set-top boxes. the current landscape has led me to conclude set-top boxes are a relic of the past. waye already well on their to the video rental store. so why, in 2016, with the commission be doing a set-top box item, maintaining its puttingry control by legislation on this. in recent weeks, a steady stream about unlocking the box. has aommission propaganda hard time staying on message. this particular catchphrase papers over the destructive commissionthe proceeds to adopt the rules presented today. this proposal would be harmful to some extent to consumers as well as every type of business involved in producing and distributing video content in many ways. not the least the unpredictable and unpredicted effects. networks ton serious bone or ability, exposing them to potential network damage and theft. it could strip content distributors to the right to distribute and control their content. subject oh

mr. polis: so first of all, none of what we're even talking about applies to small businesses. i have friends that own restaurants in colorado and boulder and fort collins. i have a friend that has three restaurants. another one has one restaurant. i actually used to own part of a restaurant. i don't recommend that business to anybody. it's a tough business. this doesn't apply to any of those people. we're talking about businesses with over 20 restaurants. we're talking about the big guys. i think that's why, for instance, the restaurant association isn't even in favor of this bill because they represent many of the restaurants that feel that this is a step forward. they want their customers to know what's in their food because, guess what, if you know what's in your food you're likely to dine out. restaurants have surpassed grocery stores for meals just shows the importance of restaurants and the american people. people want to know what's in their food. this bill will impede that. it's congress micromanaging the fine print of a thoroughly vetted and negotiated rulemaking process that's already been delayed two years. it's congress delaying it another

following my remarks senator collins' comments which reminds us of why each of the seven were important, and i ask consent to do that. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: there was some talk about the fact that we disagreed about the level of mandatory funding or whether to do it all. we do. we disagreed about that. we don't have bipartisan consensus on it, but we do have bipartisan consensus on 50 legislative proposals that we need to move ahead with, and we will move ahead with. 12 of the 50 were done today. the rest will be done in early march and early april. and my hope is that by early april, the senate will be able to join the house of representatives and president obama and say here is our contribution to the most important step we can take to make the quality of health better for virtually every american family by passing our companion legislation to 21st century cures. mr. president, i also ask consent to include following my remarks the -- a summary of each of the seven bills our committee approved today. i thank the president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: without objection on the summary. mr. nelson: mr. president?

mr. chairman. thank you, dr. king. >> senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, dr. king, and congratulations, again, on your nomination. essa includes some innovation that is an assessment pilot program which i co-authored with senator sanders which ought to tell you something about the breadth of support that the program has. this is a pilot program that would allow seven states to develop alternative models for assessment. one such model could be proficiency based, which northern new england is particularly interested in. and the law allows seven states, as i mentioned, to participate in the demonstration project. what are your plans for implementing this pilot program? >> thank you for the question and thank you for your leadership on this issue. i think we are still in the early stages of gathering feedback and comment from stakeholders on areas where regulations or guidance will be helpful. as we work on the innovative assessment pilot, i think we have a good example to look towards as we discussed briefly in new hampshire. new hampshire i think is doing very g