mr. dunn: it is clear that they are inspiring a love of science and space in their students. these teachers are forming not just strong minds, but also strong characters and big hearts in young men and women with a sense of community. mr. speaker, please join me in congratulating miss rodenberry and thank her for instilling a love of science and space in our next generation. search the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from minnesota seek recognition? ms. mccollum: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. mccollum: mr. speaker, i rise at that urge the immediate elease of two journalists. who have been imprisoned in burma for their fearless reporting on the atrocities being perpetrated against the a hingea. the ethnic cleansing of the row hingea has shocked the conscience of the world, in part because of the important public testimony reard by these two journalists. in december they were invited to meet with the police. t

mr dunn put his still in office made promises and those from the same not being kept there was one occasion when delegation was in white it from us to be told that the y.p. that why p.g. had actually gone to the east all you creates we were not convinced and we were proved proven to be right. so people need to take steps about these issues we need to be certain that my p.g. has moved and has moved to the east of your great and as rex tillerson said quite. quite well. it is important how. the reorganization of the area is carried out. if y.p. g. takes hold. of these aerials. stability will never enter this area we will work towards making sure that doesn't happen we'll start in men beach one swimming wife leaves many beach once. we trust is. restated. then we will be able to work towards. peace and stability in the area thank you. and a question from a. microphone. thank you mr secretary there seems to be a little short on specifics here do you agree that you are talking about what you're going to do in the future and you have not agreed on specific steps that will begin starting today and c

tassie ordering the repatriation of thousands of filipino workers and banning the deployment there so mr dunn has the reaction from quite city. because there is a praying for closure church service isn't quite spare a prayer for join a demo fellas maria can a two spares a thought for the domestic worker whose body was found in a freezer authorities are still looking for the suspect a lebanese national i'm fraid me. these scum if we. can a knows all about the life of a domestic worker she's worked as one for more than eight years she says some face abuse but it's not typical of them told me i didn't you were like my sister the philippine government reacted strongly to joanna's death banning its citizens from coming to kuwait for work it later issued a clarification exempting those who already have jobs here about the initial announcement never the last century through the country. for many filipinos a job in the gulf is a lifeline for extended families some my space and the life and i. don't have they don't get that. good it went from us philippine authorities however say complaints of abuse c

the war is over but now we have a new battle a battle of reconstruction and rebuilding so mr dunn has more from the conference in kuwait. the international community managed to work together to achieve a military objective defeating eisel on the battlefield now they've got to figure out how to hold together the international coalition achieving some nonmilitary goals we heard the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson today say don't forget that this these lands which have been taken off of vice all are not rehabilitated they might fall right back into isis hands again that's part of the problem who's going to provide the one hundred billion dollars that iraq's prime minister for example says he needs in order to get the job done not a lot of people lining up to volunteer that level of cash so far who provides the security on the ground again secretary tell us in saying it's very important to provide security for communities that are no longer eisel control of the americans so far have been working primarily in syria with the syrian kurds now turkish allies don't see that the kurds sho

. >> thank you, mr. dunne. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon again. i don't mean to be nostalgic, but i was just thinking about the fitzu building. it's where sach's fifth avenue used to be. i only say that because when we think about what we're going to change and demolish, that project had a lot of anger and activity, and not everything does, but i think it's up to you and the staff to think about that. it's an extreme example, but it's an example i wanted to make. the other thing i wanted to say is when i'm looking at these three recommendations for the neighborhoods, i think that examine office controls, recommendation number three, in the ncd districts, that's a pot potato. can you imagine 24th street all becoming offices, or union street all becoming offices because it's empty? it's a hot potato that somebody needs to think about. in a couple of weeks, you're going to have the change in use for the big building in mid market with all the class. it looks like misconi west. maybe think out of the box and convert it to housing. maybe that's not in

mr. dunn: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, our troops comprise the most professional, highly trained and dedicated military force that the world has ever seen. they have pledged their lives, the well-being of their families, and their sacred honor to serve and protect this nation. yet here we are, over a month into 2018, and our military and our national security are being held hostage by our colleagues across the aisle over unrelated issues. it's time for the senate to get its act together. the house has passed the full defense funding three times this year. and tonight whether he pass it a fourth time. it is wrong for us to send our best young men and women into harm's way without the resources that they need. asking them to make up with their efforts and their risks for our shortcomings. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this funding legislation and prove to our troops that we have their backs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from ne

mr. dunn: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, our troops comprise the most professional, highly trained and dedicated military force that the world has ever seen. they have pledged their lives, the well-being of their families, and their sacred honor to serve and protect this nation. yet here we are, over a month into 2018, and our military and our national security are being held hostage by our colleagues across the aisle over unrelated issues. it's time for the senate to get its act together. the house has passed the full defense funding three times this year. and tonight whether he pass it a fourth time. it is wrong for us to send our best young men and women into harm's way without the resources that they need. asking them to make up with their efforts and their risks for our shortcomings. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this funding legislation and prove to our troops that we have their backs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from ne

dunn. y'all say hi to mr. alan jackson.

dunn you're recognize ford five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chair and thank you, mr. secretary. i'm going to change focus put requested a major construction increase of $1.13 billion, the largest element of that is a 4-million seismic correction fund. >> yes. >> so your suggested appropriations language stipulates that the fund be available regardless of the estimated cost of the project. that's regardless. so what >> yeah, i think you're right in asking that question. i'm not sure what that means. are you familiar with that? because $400 million should be $400 million. you don't want to have it go -- >> i mean, i'm reading that and i'm thinking slush fund. >> right. >> i don't think that was the intent but frankly, it's a good question. i would have to come back to you with an answer. >> let's visit that again before the final. in the past, the gao has raised concerns about the va employees gaming the capital projects ranking system to skip by improperly coding projects as "seismic corrections." i would like to be assured that these requested seismic fund projects ar