mr. ellison: mr. chairman, i have an amendment the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 15 printed in house report 114-639 offered by mr. ellison of minnesota. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 794, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. ellison: mr. chairman, my amendment would repeal an effort to undermine the dodd-frank wall street reform act and an effort to eliminate consumer protections for some of the country's most vulnerable borrowers. and invite a return to the kind of predatory mortgage practices that helped fuel the financial crisis of 2008 in the first place. the manufactured housing industry is growing and highly profitable. in fact, according to its trade association, manufactured housing, what some people might call trailer homes, but actually is accurately called manufactured housing, is an industry that has recorded ship

mr. ellison: mr. chairman, 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 minnesota will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 16 printed in house report 114-639. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? mr. ellison: i have an amendment at the desk, sir. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 16 printed in house report 114-639 offered by mr. ellison of minnesota. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 794, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. ellison: mr. chairman, this is another amendment protecting consumers in manufactured housing. it strikes section 638. section 638 weakens rules preblingting buyers of mobile -- protecting buyers of mobile homes or manufactured homes from being sold products that can ruin them financially. it strikes langua

mr. ellison: mr. chairman, we reserve for now. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek regular in addition? mr. crenshaw: i rise in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. crenshaw: this amendment is duplicative and ignores an existing contractor awards system we have in place. contracting officers must already consult the system for award management to ensure a contractor can be awarded a contract. business on the excluded parties list systems have been suspended or debarred through a due process system and may not be eligible to receive or renew federal contracts for cited offenses. the best way to ensure that the government contracts to the best employers is to enforce the existing suspension and disbarment system. bad actors who are in violation of the basic worker protections should not be awarded federal contracts. everybody agrees with that. that's why we have the federal government -- that's why the federal government already has a system in place to de

mr. ellison of the twin cities. mr. ellison: i continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. calvert: i advise in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. calvert: it ignores contracting award systems and is

mr. ellison of minnesota. the chair: a record vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this lab two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 167, the nays are 255. the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on printed in ber 16 house report 114-639 offered by the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 16 printed in house report 114-639 offered by mr. ellison of minnesota.

mr. ellison of the twin cities. mr. ellison: i continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. calvert: i advise in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. calvert: it ignores contracting award systems and is already in place. contracting officers must consult the system for award management to ensure a contractor can be awarded a contract of the business on the excluded parties' list system have been suspended or debarred through a due process system and may not be eligible to receive or renew contracts. the best way to ensure that the government contracts or price grants to the best employers is to enforce the existing suspension and debarment system. bad actors who are in violation should not be awarded federal contracts. the federal government has a system in place to deny federal contracts to bad actors. if the contractor fails to maintain business ethics, agencies already have the authority to suspend or debar the employer from a government contr

mr. ellison: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8 printed in house report 114-683 offered by mr. ellison of minnesota. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 820, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. chairman. i also want to thank ranking member betty mccollum. we can raise the living standards for working families all over the country right now if we use federal dollars to create good jobs. the united states government is the largest buyer of goods and service in the world, and the united states government should use that power to create good jobs and to create a high road economy for all americans. my amendment would reprogram funds to create an office of good jobs in the interior department that would do the following -- it would help ensure the department's procurement, grant making and regulatory decisions, enco

mr. ellison is a little bit on both sides of this transaction as a shareholder in both.ng us on the line is jon fortt. jon? >> hi, andrew. this is a deal some had expected for quite some time given as you mentioned larry ellison's interest in netsuite. and he's been tracking the cloud for quite some time. we've seen quite a bit of cloud m&a recently. on this program a couple weeks ago we were talking microsoft, linkedin. this certainly fits into that. sol dags and those with cloud strength tries to augment that strength in whatever way possible. if you take a look at the things that have been able to gain a decent amount of momentum, netsuite is one of those properties. the former executives over at people soft which oracle hostily took over a decade and a half ago. so the plot thickens. this continues to get more interesting as the powers in cloud and in enterprise starts stepping up cloud access. >> john, we saw from the linkedin filing that sales force was willing to bid even more for that company. so they obviously have an appetite to do something. given the connecti

mr. kief ellison. come on up here. [applause] >> the rockstar himself. thanks so much for being here.e got a great morning. how about last night, that was awesome. i walked out of there feeling really good. we've got the best float is all over. i'm going to to come i think her whole speech was like really her whole speech, you know? i think she actually did not herself your i'm excited about this election season. last night really did a lot for me personally because what we talked about so much is our platform. what do we all shared? what is it that we feel unites us can feel unites us, joins us can bind us together? get our ideas. we are united around what we believe in. and it really is just like bernie sanders said last night, the most progressive platform in the history of the democratic party. it is something to truly, truly embrace. i think americans don't make enough money at it but at the democratic platform that we need a $15 minimum wage, i think is a very good thing. ask anybody trying to make it. ask anybody trying to get by day-to-day. i love the idea that we put in there

after the speech, he tried to meet with sheldon he had ellison here at the q center, and mr. ld not meet with ted cruz because of his lack of endorsement for donald trump. ted cruz is meeting with a texas delegation in this hour. we'll see if he says anything about the very controversial speech last night, chris. >> he haddilson. he had no know. >>> let's bring in special counsel to donald trump himself. counselor, congratulations on the nomination. i know it is a big night. you say we knew what cruz was going to say. he gave us this speech. you knew he was going to take a beating out there, and you welcomed him to it. >> donald trump is bigger than ted cruz. it just goes to show you the distinction between an adult and a baby who happens to be a sore loser at the same time. >> he says and his people say, cruz, i'm a man of honor. i believe in my conservative principles. >> where was the honor last night when he came to somebody's home, the one thing i'll possibly in part agree with and, the man came into another man's home, and disrespected him. you know what he got for that?

mr. stamper: -- afterglaude: i named him langston hughes and ralph ellison.: what does the name me to you? langston: it gives me proud -- cried that i can walk into this type of work and say my name is langston. it gives me a different type of courage, especially doing this work. break ande going to come back to this conversation. langston is a junior at brown university in providence, rhode island, and we also speaking to his father, eddie glaude, chair of the department of african american studies at princeton university and has written a new .ook stay with us. ♪ [music break] this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with nermeen shaikh. we are staying with professor eddie glaude, chair of african american studies at princeton university. hisor of several books -- latest, "democracy in black, how race still enslaved the american soul. you named your son langston, who is still with us. langston hughes, who wrote the famous poem, "dream deferred -- what happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in th

mr. trump uses is doing that. amy: i want to turn to comments made by the first muslim member of congress, democratic representative keith ellisonf minnesota. >> muslims who support trump is like chickens for colonel sanders. you know what i mean? you think you're going to be the chicken who doesn't get fried up? well, i think you better guess again. amy: that is keith ellison, congress member from minnesota. >> i thought his comments were offensive to republican muslims. as a member of congress, he ought to know better. i think the meaning others does not serve the purpose of what we're trying to do. i think it makes a difference in theslims are involved republican party. i got a chance to talk to newt cotton,, senator tom commerce and peter king. a lot of names, elected officials a stiff here and somehow think that they all hate muslims, when i talked to them in person, it was a whole different experience. amy: that is an interesting point. you said they sound like they hate muslims. , which would suggest their policies hurt muslims, that when you met them personally, they were nice people. but what does that say about the rep

mr. fitzpatrick from pennsylvania, greg meeks from new york, bruce poliquin from maine, bob pittenger from north carolina, keith ellison from minnesota, andy barr, bill foster of illinois, brad sherman from california, french hill, arkansas, and al green from texas, joined me in co-sponsoring this important legislation. during congressional delegations to foreign countries to deal with central banks in other countries and also financial intelligence units from very difficult locations, we made it a priority to meet with regional finance intelligence units to get updates on efforts to combat terror financing. witnessing the important work of the fiu's around the globe demonstrates the need for the united states to continue to develop robust, legal frameworks to combat terrorist finance and money lundering. it's -- laundering. we need to help the u.s. intelligence unit. by sharing intelligence with the foreign counterparts, they support financial crime investigations throughout the world. terrorists' proven ability to move money through innovative means requires continued progress in this critical counterterrorism area.