mr. conaway? mr. conaway: if i understand the gentleman's amendment he would strike section 207 of the amendment which puts in section 512 to the underlying base document, which entitled procedures of nonpublicly available information concerning u.s. persons. the base of this section gives americans protections identity , protections and sets up the requirements by which someone within the administration has to go through the hoop in order to unmask a u.s. citizen's name to be used within the intelligence committee. as you look, the originating element is of the entity. each covered request or document, given a name and title, person asking for the request, reasons why, good governance, and sets up the oversight. emm it, it would strike all of those protections for u.s. citizens. if we put this in law, those good governments oversight protections would be struck, is that the understanding? mr. schiff: the nature of the substitute strikes the problematic unmasking language. conway: i will take that as a

mr. conaway? mr. conaway: if i understand the gentleman's amendment he would strike section 207 of the amendment which puts in section 512 to the underlying base document which entitled

mr. conaway? mr. conaway: if i understand the gentleman's amendment he would strike section 207 of the amendment which puts in section 512 to the underlying base document which entitled procedures of nonpublicly available information concerning u.s. persons. this section gives americans protections, identity protections and sets up the requirements by which someone in e -- >> we are outside the home of john conyers. the congressman asuesed of sexual sexual harrassment. >> saying he was a predatory and saying he took every opportunity to sexually harris and basically to assault her. i was on a couple of national networks and that is not true. what she has forgotten or omitted in telling you all is that when she worked for the congressman, she had her sister working there as well -- strike that -- she had her daughter, her daughter working there and another family member. she said she was 40r something years old. single mother and needed a job. but when you bring your daughter into a situation that you d

mr. conaway: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to discuss an issue that's receiving a lot of attention both in the media an in the house agriculture committee and that's our nation's largest anti-hunger program, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or snap. as we approach the upcoming farm bill, i would offer a brief perspective, something i have been keeping in the front of my mind throughout all these conversations. mr. speaker, snap is about families that are living paycheck to paycheck here in our nation. it's about helping households across this contry, not so much worry about where the next meal is coming from. letting them worry more about how their children can be educated, their own work, and their own future. it's about helping every citizen realize the american dream by modernizing a program that helps lift folks out of rather than trapping them there. mr. speaker, this will not be easy. there will be people who demonize our efforts. some believe will criticize the process. we'll have tho

mr. conaway. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i find my good friend's arguments to be less than persuasive. weather there's evidence of wrongdoing or not, american's identities should be protected. and what we're doing with unmasking is to make sure it happens. we've seen in the record we've been collecting so far, there appears to be perhaps reckless or certain an inordinate number of unmaskings of american identity and with that good proof, without establishing why, the analysts or whoever was asked for the unmask to happen, and to hear argument that we should be less concerned about the privacy of americans than what this attempts to do is pretty shocking, quite frankly. this does not hamper the ability of the intelligence committee to use this tool. it simply protects american's identities who should be protected and there ought to be a high bar in order to unmask someone's identity that has not gone through the privacy protections of the fourth amendment we are afforded across everything else. this tool is too important to not put in place, but by the same token, it's powerful and its

the clerk will call the role. >> nunes, aye. >> conaway, aye. >> mr. king. aye. >> mr. lobe yando. aye. >> mr. rooney. aye. >> miss ross leighton. aye. >> mr. turner. mr. turner aye. >> dr. wenstrup, aye. mr. stewart, aye. mr. crawford, aye. mr. gowdy. aye. miss steph onic. aye. mr. hurd. aye. ranking member schiff, no. ranking member schiff, no. mr. himes. no. miss sewell. no. mr. carson. no. miss speier. >> no. >> mr. quigley. mr. swalwell. no. >> mr. castro. no. >> mr. heck. >> no. mr. chairman, there are 13 ayes and eight nos. >> thank you. the bill will be purported to the -- for the house of representatives without objection pursuant to clause 2 l of house rule 11. i and unanimous consent that the we be able to make technical changes to the bill subject to the approval of the minority. so ordered. if there is no further business without objection, the committee stands adjourned. [ gavel ] >>> the senate is working on the gop tax reform bill with amendment debate and votes and a final passage vote expected later. watch live on c-span2. >> all of the claims that tax cuts for th

mr. conaway very, very well. unfortunately he's not the person who signs the subpoena. on mr. nunez who has taken on rogue investigations of his own. as this point in time it's not certain whether he will allow us to subpoena those already questioned, refused to answers questions such as mr. sessions, mr. trump and, many many, others. >> are you referring to don junior? >> the most common answer by mr. trump and trump associates in this investigation is, "i don't recall." or they call up some privilege which doesn't exist or simply refuse to answer. on the eric prince testimony released, refused to answer my questions as to his past dealings with uae officials. these are important. at some point in time those questions need to be answered. if mr. munez doesn't dictate that, frankly it will take house leadership, probably meaning the speaker of the house to step up. do we want the american public to know what took place? is this just mr. mueller with the subpoena power to force these questions to be answered? >> you're calling on paul ryan to put pressure on devin nunes?