mr. fidell: first, the comment mr.altz a junior officer in afghanistan, he also has on his webpage that he worked for vice president cheney. for background. the army said in its report what i said in my letter to general milley it is incumbent on the army to make the facts known. i am concerned that something that mr. waltz may have said might be classified. i assume someone will make a determination on that. amy: what do you mean? mr. fidell: i am not going to go any further. amy: eugene fidell, you wrote in your memo that the army's report recommends bergdahl be stripped of his status as a missing-captured prisoner of war. unit, "international humanitarian law does not distinguish between personnel who have deserted and personnel who have not." you also cite everyone from bergdahl's captors to president obama calling him a prisoner of war. this is obama announcing bergdahl's release last june. president obama: we are committed to winding down the war and closing gitmo. we remain ironclad for our prisoners of war. it

and quite tepid to what maduro said and what fidel would say ten years ago. >> your thoughts mr. farns worth. >> an farnsworth. >> broadly speaking is going to be underperforming this year 2015. but the overheated rhetoric coming out of venezuela and the supports venezuela has gotten from other cungs countries has changed the dynamic. it's going to be an interesting time. >> and venezuela what's the internal political climate like? >> in venezuela very polarized. what this situation has done is basically fragmented. coming out under the union movement but it is because of the arrest of two opposition mayors, and then another mayor has become very fragmented. some don't want to go to elections, sort of believed they would get stolen, others want to stay true to the electoral route. we'll have to eight. there's a difficulty there too because they are so divided in forming a common front what to do with this government. >> do you see the economic situation, the overall situation improving? >> no not at all. >> where do we go from here mr. farnsworth? >> nobody has any easy answers.

fidelity to the rule of law when it comes to the freedom of information. thank you very much. good luck. >> thank you, senator. >> senator durbin? >> thanks, mr. chairman. and ms. yates thanks for being here today and thanks for coming by my office. let me ask you at the outset about human trafficking and stipulate that i think that senator cornyn's bill is a good bill. we've been mired down on one aspect of the bill. we're hoping we can break through, but it it is is felt very strongly by the committee on both sides that we need to address this. you have undoubtedly dealt in some capacity with the victims of human trafficking, and it strikes me that these victims, many of them are very very young. that is one of the tragic aspects of this. and most if not all, of them are in some staid of servitude because of the people who are controlling their lives. which leads me to a generalized by classic definition, the victims who are impregnated are apparently subject to sexual assault would be victims of statutory rape in most states. and certainly involuntary sexual assault by definition, in most categories. what we're trying to reach here is a question abou

fidelity to the rule of law when it comes to freedom of information. thank you very much. good luck. >> thank you, senator. >> senator. >> thanks mr. chairman and thanks for being here today and coming by my office. let me ask you at the outset about human trafficking and stipulate that i think senator korn's bill is is a good bill. we've been meiered down on one es aspect, hoping we can break through. you have not only dealt in some capacity with the victims of human trafficking and it strikes me that these victims, many are very, very young. that is one of the tragic aspects of this. and most of them, if not all, are in some state of servitude because of the people controlling their live, which leads me to a generalized question. by classic definition, the victims who are impregnated would apparently are subject to sexual assault would be victims of stat tor rape in some states and voluntary sexual assault by definition in most categories. what we're trying to reach here is a question about how they would be treated the if pregnant and whether they would be regarded as victims of rape. could you make any observation on that? >> i

fidelity, bravery, and integrity. god bless the f.b.i. and god bless america. thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. curbelo: i continue to reserve, we have no additional speakers so i'm prepared to close at any time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized. mr. carson: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. curbelo: mr. speaker, i want to thank my two colleagues from florida for their moving and eloquent remarks and i especially want to thank mrs. wilson for raising awareness and taking this very special initiative to honor these men who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the safety and security of our community. mr. speaker it's often in this house that we take time to remember those who are defending our freedoms around the globe, our men and women in uniform, as we should because many of them also pay the ultimate sacrifice. less freque