mr. duncan can, her action is set. if every dependent claimed innocence and then proceeded to plead the fifth, investigations and testimony would never be able to proceed. every defendant would follow such action and our judicial process would come to a standstill. i hope that this committee and every single member will do everything in its power to seek the truth. ms. lerner's test ceremony essential to this end and believable the this committee has given her and her counsel ample opportunity to come faurd and avoid contempt -- forward and avoid contempt charges. if not, we have no choice but to hold her in contempt so this investigation can give american people what they want, the truth, and for the sake of this republic, i hope we give them just that. yield back. >> i thank gentleman. since we have no further individuals asking for recognition at this time, but i'm -- i understand there will lummis, turning, ms. do you wish to be heard at this time? >> i wish to be awarded my time and choose to yield it to another m

mr. duncan. mr. duncan: -- mr. hunter: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 4005. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hunter: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hunter: thank you, mr. speaker. this is the coast guard and maritime transportation act of 2014. it re-authorizes at levels that are fiscally sound and that will reverse the misguided cuts proposed by this administration. the president proposed to slash the services acquisition budget by over 20%, reduce the number of service members by over 1,300, undermine readiness by cutting program hours for aircraft and jeopardize the success of search and rescue missions by taking fixed wing aircraft crew off of alert status. it will have gaps, increase acquisition delays, drive up the cost of new assets and deny our service members the critical resources needed to p

mr. duncan spoke i thought about some of the criminals that i have come across. some rough, rough people but they still had rights because they were still americans. that is a wonderful thing about this country. i will close with this. and remind all of this that this is our watch. we are on the earth today and i take it so important of the past on a democracy to our children and our children's children that is strong and justice and as the one that existed the day we were born and with that i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. we now go to the drama from south carolina mr. gowdy. >> thank you mr. chairman. when mr. cummings talks about rights mr. chairman i will listen. i will listen because he was a very good attorney and i will listen because i'm familiar with his personal narrative and while he was talking i scribbled down down -- you have a right to remain silent and you also have a right in the document that the right to remain silent at this in. you have a right to cross-examine witnesses mr. chairman and it's important for us to spend just a minute on

mr. duncan for such time as he may use. mr. duncan: there was a tragedy this week at fort hood, texas and the people of south carolina stand with the people in texas sm the president's former chief of staff and now the mayor of chicago, rahm emmanuel said, never let a crisis go to waste. that's what we are seeing going on today with harry reid to use the recent fort hood tragedy to pursue his agenda of control. he said this week that the recent shooting should renew discussion about gun control and went on to talk about background checks and mental health issues. mr. speaker, these comments have nothing to do with the facts at hand. however, harry reid wants to use this as a way to restrict americans' second amendment rights. i don't agree with his motives, but i do agree with his suggestion that we need to revive a discussion on the second amendment. it should reawaken our discussions about americans' constaugs kneel afffirmed rights to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves, to defend our families, to defend our property and u

mr. duncan. mr. mchenry votes aye. r. langford. mr. gosar. mr. gosar votes aye. mr. ferranthal votes aye. mr. hastings. mr. hastings votes aye. mr. woodall. mr. massey votes aye. mr. massey votes aye. mr. desanto's votes aye. mr. cummings votes no. mr. cummings votes no. mrs. maloney votes no. ms. norton. mr. tierney. mr. clay votes no. mr. lynch votes no. mr. cooper votes no. mr. connolly votes no. mr. cartwright votes no. ms. duckworth votes no. ms. kelly? mr. davis? mr. welch votes no. s. grisham votes no. ou are not recorded. >> does anyone else seek to be reported? the clerk will report. >> on that vote, 21 yeas, 12 nays. >> the ayes have it. the report is ordered to the house. the staff shall be authorized to make necessary technical conforming changes to the report. >> mr. chairman, i asked a number of days. >> so ordered. without objection. we stand adjourned. >> today on c-span, the freedom summit from manchester, new hampshire. including appearances by senators rand paul and ted cruz, mike huckabee and donald trump. we'll have live conversation all day so y

mr. duncan spoke, i thought of the criminals i have come across. rough people. they still have rights. they will still americans. that is the wonderful thing about this. , we're remind all of us are on the earth today. it is so important that we pass on a democracy our children and our children's children, that is just as strong as the one that existed the day we were born. with that, i yield back. >> i think the gentleman. we go to the gentleman from south carolina. >> thank you. when mr. cummings talks about rights, i listen. good attorney. i will listen because i familiar with his personal narrative. while he was talking, i scribbled down court rights. you have a right to confront your witness. that is the same document. you have a right to cross-examine witnesses. i think it is important for us to spend a minute on why our framers thought it was so important you be able to confront and cross-examine witnesses. it is the single best way to elicit the truth. you have a right to remain silent. you have a right to a jury trial. it is waived every day across this country. isn you plead

mr. duncan: we're aware as a congress of all the problems that we're seeing in the v.a. for too long, the heroes that have served this country have been mistreed, overlooked or flat out ignored by the v.a. when these brave men and women signed up to defend our nation they were promised to be taken care of when they returned home. promised to be taken care of. however, today we see less than adequate care, doctors visit wait times stretching months and in some cases years and hundreds of thousands of backlog benefit cases. the instant the -- the incident the gentleman from north carolina talked about are prevalent across this land in every congressional district, including mine. mr. speaker, when i talked to the veterans back home in my district, i hear a loss of confidence in a government that promised to be there for them. i hear from veteran whors just plain giving up on the department of veterans' affairs. the latest report on v.a. claims from april 28, 2014, shows there's almost 600,000 pending claims with over 300,000 considered backlogged that have been pending for

i'm joined by education secretary arne duncan. mr. secretary, thank you very much. what is it and how is this going to work? >> very simply, we believe every child deserves a highly effective teacher and every teacher deserves to be well trained, well prepared before they ever enter the classroom. i talk to young teachers everywhere i go. often the vast majority feel they were not prepared to enter the classroom. it is simply unacceptable. >> are you putting any money behind this, or is this kreubg lamb advice? how is it going to work? >> we have resources. we want to make sure grants are going places that are taking seriously their job of preparing teachers. there's a seriousness of purpose there that doesn't exist on education side. there's so much we can learn from that example. >> it's one of the things we have learned over the years looking at models in finland and other countries in preparing kids. their scores are better on international standards scores because the teachers are taken more seriously and teacher education is taken more seriously. >> we want to

mr. chairman.u, secretary duncan, good to see you. the last time we talked, we were breaking bread and talked about how to best serve the needs of this nation's youngest learners. i always appreciate those .pportunities for conversations the department's budget request focus heavily on a clipping the of the fill the jobs 21st-century economy, and i think that is very appropriate. however, you do not propose any additional resources for the perkins funding. last month, over 91 members of the house through the advocacy of the bipartisan career and technical education caucus requested the appropriations committee return career and technical education programming to pre-sequester levels, and we talked a lot about the unemployed, the underemployed, and probably not enough, but some about the dwindling workforce participation, which is, i think, incredibly important to the strategic success of the future of this country. the solutions to address some of ct programmingis through the carl the perkins career and technical education act. there'

tim duncan, his friends, they call him mr. glass. kawhi leonard misses. manu ginobili, huh? man gathers what another man spills. grateful dead reference for bill walton right there. patty mills, jeff ayres, the spurs, they've got oklahoma city thursday. that's going to be an interesting matchup. give us an even-keeled read. >> pirates baseball. sterling marte. we're in the 12th. pirates down one, and he successfully hits that ball into left field. clint barmes runs home and plates one. tied at 3. bottom of the 16th. same score, 3-3. tony sanchez had never done this before. no, not just a chop and single to the left but one that would result in what the kids are calling a walkoff. that's when you score and then you lead. they celebrate. pirates win it by a count of 4-3. i thought our first read was way better. >> it was, but they don't know what you're talking about because they're just sitting there watching this. good luck with the news and information that precedes this or follows this. >> guys, thanks. >>> all right, up next in "the pulse," paternity leave is becoming a h

i'm going to recognize duncan hunter. >> thank you, mr. chairman . gentlemen, i guess it would be great if we could have the judiciary committee where the money comes out from the counterdrug money that gets put into federal grants throughout the united states. one big question is why do you get so little of that? is it because it is a jobs program throughout the united states for drug enforcement agencies at munis pap pal levels -- municipal levels of cities and states? why do you think that is? do they have better lobbyistses than you do? that is my question? why is there less money going to you opposed to all of these different agencies that the department of justice doles out grants to these agents, every local sheriff and police gets drug moneys and you don't. why is it? , that is a real great grenade to jump on. i don't know the percentages that they get to midwestically. do know is i wear a -- domestically. >> 1.5% goes to south com and interdiction efforts. that leaves .5 for everybody else. >> i can't verify. i would have to go back and rese

mr king was in action going after the attacker. he didn't have time, he tackled, and i was behind him. >> arnie duncan, education secretary call it: >> with so much violence occurring at schools across the nation, how do we ensure the safe environment regardless of the weapon. joining us now is patrick tomasi, the attorney for the suspect reigned as an adult on wednesday, facing four counts of attempted homicide. 21 counts of aggravated assault and one of a weapon on school grounds. you met with your client. what condition is he in, and what do i think happened? . >> he is obviously depressed. this is a young kid. if you look at him, he looks 12 years old, very small stature. the family is devastated by this. they are - send their best to all the alleged victims here. there was no warning for this. this young man, if you meet him, he's stable. he has no history of any kind of psychiatric problem. he's never been in trouble. he's not a loner, he's not a kid that others would say is a wooerto. he's a student -- weirdo. he's a student. he interacts well. my job is to get to the bottom of this and figure out what happened here, why it

mr king was in action going after the attacker. he didn't have time to react. he tackled him, i was behind him. >> education secretary arnie duncan called it a tragedy serving as a reminder that children and staff deserve to work and learn in a safe environment. with so much violence across the nation, how do we ensure the safe environment, regardless of what the weapons is. >> joining us from peninsula, and patrick tom arsy, the attorney for the 16-year-old, who was arraigned as an adult. good to have you with us. you met with your client today. can you tell us what condition he's in and what you think happened? >> well, he's obviously depressed. this is a young kid that, if you looked at him, you would think he was more like 12 years old than 16. he's very small statute, a young man. the family is devastated by this. they are - send their best to all the alleged victims here. there was no warning for this. this young man, if you meet him, he's stable, he has no history of any kind of psychiatric problems. he's never been in trouble. he's not a loner, he's not a kid that others would say is a weirdo. he's a b student, interacts