mr. garcia: no idea. reporter: no nominations have come in? mr. garcia: as far as i know jordan is the only nominee -- or candidate running. we'll see. reporter: senator, are you pledging support on the floor whoever the conference calls up? mr. garcia: yeah, i think, you know, the american people deserve to have the filling of the speakership be done, right? i don't think the average american actually cares necessarily who the individual is but they care there is a speaker of the house and care there is a third person in line to the president that is representing the majority of congress. and that's what we owe them. there will be debates which candidate is the right one but if someone gets the majority of the votes, my expectation would be everyone in the party should realize there's a national security imperative here to fill the seat and put aside your personal and political differences and get onboard for the big win which is a slim victory of win with 217, 218 votes and unfortunately not everyone is adopting that. it may require us to go to t

mr. garcia: after the failure of maga extremists, jim jordan, multiple candidates have emerged now to see if they can be the ones to get 217. if any of them at all can get that done. the american people and our allies abroad can't afford any more delays. every day of this maga madness is another day of not sending aid to israel and ukraine. not taking meaningful steps to fund our government, and not making sure that we are looking out for working families across this country looking out for working families in this country. another day of being away from our districts and talking to folks in our communities who elected us to work on their business, the people's business, not to be here and baby sit house republicans as their infighting further crimes this institution. they can continue down the path of destruction or work with house democrats in a bipartisan path forward to get back to doing the people's business. the clock is ticking and end the chaos and dysfunction and get back to work. mr. lieu: thank you chairman aguilar and representative raze. this entire year has been a stark cont

mr. garcia: growing up jason always wanted to put others first. he had a heart for serving others that ultimately led him to serve in the los angeles county deputy office for over 15 years. he took great pride in being a deputy and he performed all of his positions with honor and with distinction. but his true purpose in life came on january 31, 2018, when he welcomed his daughter, skyler marie, into the world. skyler is a beautiful and intelligent young lady and jay's world revolved around her. jason dudley rooney was a great brother, great son and a great father. he will be missed by his family, friends and the good people of los angeles county whom he served so well. may god bless jay rooney who is now by his side and may god bless all of our peacekeepers. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is rec

mr. garcia: more than a quarter comes from the top 1% bracket? mr. werful: i have very specific numbers on that. for example what i just mentioned individuals that earn more than $500,000 associate with $40 billion of the tax gap. and then that's just from underreporting. when you add underpayment it's another $150 billion. are you roughly at about $200 billion for just those individuals who earn more than $500,000. mr. garcia: thank you. i.r.s. investments are expected to raise $124 billion. because they couldn't hire the tax exports to get wealthy tax cheats. they can and can be done. president biden has promised to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up. not the top down. we need to take on tax cheats, especially those at the very top. lowering the deficit is good. taxing the very wealthy and rich stkpwaod. and people pay the fair share of what they owe the government for the basic services we depend on is also very important. i want to thank all of my colleagues for having this hearing. i want to thank both of you for your work. i loo

mr. garcia, alexi cheney shaw the i'm, you can say that interview in full on the data we in using youtube channel. now. well, ukraine is particularly concerned about russian products like gas floating out of the country and into the you very office a, it is also proving a problem, your paying goods, the finding that way into russia. despite that, he you for juice's refusing to sell to russian buyers. that's what countries like, has expand, come in the whole come marketing, all multi context on offers all sorts of goods, clouds, electronics, and surprisingly, cooktops made in germany. everything here can be purchased and sent to russia, even if the manufactured are no longer directly supplies the country to. despite the rest economic functions on russia, cars x times export to the country increased by almost 2000000000 to nearly 9000000000 euros in 2022. right? imports on a significant business for cause i can do with jewels and companies. we ask economies ottoman by some, by, if about the problem. but he might do the job. it is impossible to control. and certainly there's no data loss of

mr. garcia. >> gentleman from california, mr. garcia is recognized two minutes. >> i want to recalibrate our minds what is actually happening here today. this proceeding looks importance, feels consequential. look what else is happening across america. today about 11,000 people will illegally penetrate our borders. today's debt is approaching $34 trillion. the mortgage rates hit a 25 years high. our energy prices are at back breaking highs with gas approaching $8 a gallon in my district. today china and the ccp grow stronger with an intent to go to war by 2027 and our military is experiencing record low retention and record low recruitment, this is the reality of today for 335 million americans under president joe biden. it's a dark and scary reality. to republican majority here today in the house is the only fire wall against the damaging far left policies of the biden administration. the single subject appropriation bills that we were supposed to be voting on this week that will fight inflation, cut spending, security our border

mr. garcia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. garcia: i want to recalibrate our minds on what is actually happening here today. this proceeding looks important, it feels consequential. but let's look at what else is happening across america. today about 300 americans will die from fentanyl poisoning. today about 11,000 people will illegally penetrate our borders. today's debt is approaching $34 trillion. today's mortgage rates just hit a 25-year high now approaching 8%. our energy prices are again at back-breaking highs with gas approaching $8 a gallon in my district. today china and the c.c.p. grow strong we are an intent to go to war by 2027. and our military is experiencing record low retention and record low recruitment. this is the reality of today for 335 million americans under president joe biden. it's a dark and scary reality. this republican majority here today in the house is the only firewall against the damaging for a left poll sthoifs biden administration. the single subject appropriation bills that we were supposed

mr. garcia, my, this has a put the spotlight once again on the occupation, these really occupation and the suffering of palestinians in gaza and the occupied territories. but it has, however, also put the spotlight on her mouse and what some would describe as her most brutal tactics we seen is really a citizen scaled. i'm also taking a number of hostages. can you tell me about these hostages? how many does from us have? how are they being treated because israel has accused come off of brutally killing hostages. they've been some reports of hamas killing babies. and so it is just to just just give us one picture as a prime minister. no, sir, give us one picture. that's how much tells us, how much can the children come up to the payment so i can know how much did not work for any civilians? no, no, we don't go to the suite one to contribute to know the whole thing. so the person that i go to get into the, could you give me a call until the 2 if it's possible, if it takes an hour, it's not you can talk like like a patient who uh, who uh, sorts from the physical while these rouse presidents sp

mr. garcia, my, this has a put the spotlight once again on the occupation, these really occupation and the suffering of palestinians in gaza in the occupied territories. but it has, however, also put the spotlight on her mouth and what some would describe as her modest, brutal tactics. we seen is really a citizen scaled. i'm also taking a number of hostages. can you tell me uh about these hostages? how many does come us have? how are they being treated because israel has accused from us of brutally killing hostages. they've been some reports of how mosse killing babies, and so it is just to just, just just give us one picture as a prime minister. no says give us one picture. that's how much cynthia williams, how the children come up to the home. so i can hope that you know, how much did not work for any civilians. no, no, we don't go to the is we don't know the whole thing. sort of the grades are not going to get into the could you give me a quote on the spot to follow it? it looks like, oh it is not. it's not like the professional of a sort of. ready that he's to file their tensions and t

mr. garcia. >> i want to thank the chairman and ranking member raskin if for this special bill for a real true american hero. i rise in support of h.r. 292 to name the post office in valencia, california after mr. bill reynolds. this is a fitting tribute who gave so much of his life to this nation. while his heroism in the jungles of vietnam, it was his commitment to recognize his fellow brothers and sisters in arms as a lion in the veterans' community. bill was drafted for service shortly after graduating from high school and joined charlie company fourth batallion ion the boys of 67 is what they were known as. he was part of the division to be raised, drafted and trained for service in the vietnam war. despite of being wounded in action he continued to fight along side his friends and was awarded the purple heart and bronze star for his bravery. after his service, he embraced his proud identity as a u.s. veteran and advocated his brothers and sisters who searched. he was one of the first ambassadors and member of the localally can post. during the last decade of his life, he was the mos

mr. garcia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. garcia: i want to recalibrate our minds on what is actually happening here today. this proceeding looks important, it feels consequential. but let's look at what else is happening across america. today about 300 americans will die from fentanyl poisoning. today about 11,000 people will illegally penetrate our borders. today's debt is approaching $34 trillion. today's mortgage rates just hit a 25-year high now approaching 8%. our energy prices are again at back-breaking highs with gas approaching $8 a gallon in my district. today china and the c.c.p. grow strong we are an intent to go to war by 2027. and our military is experiencing record low retention and record low recruitment. this is the reality of today for 335 million americans under president joe biden. it's a dark and scary reality. this republican majority here today in the house is the only firewall against the damaging for a left poll sthoifs biden administration. the single subject appropriation bills that we were supposed

mr. garcia is recognized for two minutes. >> i want to recalibrate. let's look at what else is happening across america. today about 300 americans will die from fentanyl poisoning. today, about 11,000 people will illegally penetrate our borders. today's debt is approaching $34 trillion. today's mortgage rates just hit a 25-year high. now approaching 8%. our energy prices are again at back break highs with gas approaching $8 a gallon in my district. today, china and the ccp grow stronger with an intent to go to war by 2027. and our military is experiencing record low retention and record low recruitment. this is the reality of today for 335 million americans under president biden. it's a dark and scary reality. this republican majority here today in the house is the only fire wall against the damaging far left policies of the biden administration. the single subject appropriation bills that we were supposed to be voting on this week will literally fight to reverse the darkness of these realities and fight inflation, cut spending, secure our border whil

mr. garcia, my, this has a put the spotlight once again on the occupation, these really occupation and the suffering of palestinians in gaza in the occupied territories. but it has, however, also put the spotlight on her mouth and what some would describe as her modest, brutal tactics we seen is really a citizen scaled. i'm also taking a number of hostages. can you tell me about these hostages? how many does come us have? how are they being treated because israel has accused from us of brutally killing hostages. they've been some reports of how i'm us killing babies. and so it is just to just, just just give us one picture as a prime minister. no says give us one picture. that's how much tells us how much temperature come up. so i can hope that you know, how much did not work for any civilians. no, no, we don't go to the is we don't know the whole thing. sort of the person that i go to get into the could you give me a call if it's possible, if it takes an hour, it's not. it's not like the professional of a sort of. ready as well as well as the president, respect him to the 1st times and so

mr. garcia, much. thank you for taking the time to talk to us guys. yamato is a spokesman for hamas joining us there on the line from guys. and we have a team of correspondence on al jazeera covering all the latest developments in this guy's a war in tennessee southern. these are at washington dc, but of course we begin in gaza. the gaza strip where you're now outside is for ice . you're not, it's been another difficult night for the people of guys that we heard back from mr . guys the how much we talked about the humanitarian situation, the bombing talk to us for us about what's been happening this morning. is it any sort of rephrase? well uh, slowly this morning has it's comfortable in boardman, but it's not just air strikes, it's air strikes, it's tank shells and gun boats from the c o at the same time. right now as we speak, a whole bunch of neighborhoods that's in the west scouts. the city has been under bombardment for almost an hour, and now we're talking about 7 residential towers. each tower i

mr. garcia. mr. garcia votes no. mr. frost. mr. frost votes no. ms. lee votes no. mr. kosar votes no. ms. crockett. ms. crockett votes no. mr. goldman. mr. moscowitz. mr. moscowitz both no. ms. tlaib votes no. mr. chairman. mr. chairman votes aye. mr. fallon is not yet recorded. >> aye . >> that was mr. langworthy of new york recorded. mr. fallon votes i. mr. langworthy votes aye. >> mr. timmons is not yet recorded. mr. timmons votes aye. >> mr. kosar is not recorded. mr. kosar votes i -- eye. >> mr. connolly votes no. not yet recorded for krishnamoorthi . mr. krishnamoorthi votes no . >> how was mr. armstrong recorded? >> mr. armstrong is loaded aye. >> mr. chairman, however my recorded? >> ms. mace is reported as a voting aye. >> mr. donald's is not yet recorded. mr. donald's votes yes. >> have i been recorded, madam clerk? it is mr. raskin. >> mr. raskin, you are reported as voting no. >> mr. gomez, you are recorded as voted no. >> how on my recorded. >> ms. cortez is reported as voting no. ms. brown is not yet recorded. ms. brown votes no. >> will the clerk please tally the votes.

mr. garcia. it is my understanding the epa is in the process of finalizing regulations that will rapidly increase the sale of both passenger electrical vehicles, as well as medium and heavy- duty electric vehicles, everything from delivery vans the long-haul trucks. the june report by the u.s. chamber of commerce found the epa regulatory analysis of its proposed power plant rule ignores massive amounts of electricity demand resulting from the epa's own ev and hydrogen mandates. i don't know if you've seen this report or not, from the chamber of commerce, says the epa is ignoring 371 terawatt hours of electricity demand resulting from his own rules, this is equivalent to almost 9% of the nationwide demand, or one and a half times the electricity used each year in the state of california. it is easy for administrators to claim a proposed rule doesn't cost anything if it ignores the real-world cost that the cost to comply, but that isn't the reality. and i understand even good ideas, depending on th

mr. garcia said of the extremists, quote, they just handed a wind to the chinese communist party. if my colleagues really cared about national security, cybersecurity and the health of the nation, they would be funding the federal government right now. like the ransom where attack that we examine throughout this hearing, our republican colleagues are holding the nations and i yield back. >> i now yield to chairman fallon for closing remarks. >> thank you, madam chair. just a couple things. one, it's amazing that you think something like combating ransom where what into being partisan. anna some of the colleagues did not make it partisan and some did, calling folks extremists and people that want to shut down. i don't know anybody that wants a shutdown. and when you talk about resources, there are limited resources. that's why in the cr that we are trying to work out to attach some security that we desperately needed, and may be a modest code of 8% discretionary spending when we are spending 663 billion on data service just this year alone and according to cbo over the next decade

mr. garcia is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. take you to eyewitnesses. commissioner werfel just i also want to pass along my thanks to everyone at the agency, especially the taxpayer advocate service. my team back home initially impressed with working with the team and really dedicated servant, no, it's not always an easy job. just recently i constituent of mine from huntington park reached out because she had identification should not received tax returns in 2021 or 2022. we work with your office and tax advocate serves and able to serve over $16,000 back to her and this is a story that we hear over and over again in her office. answer that would not be possible without the team of workers you and such t is what u remind folks that yes, this is a hard business but there's people which was hard to get folks there earned dollars back so thank you for that. i'm glad were having the street and i know the irs oftentimes faces a difficult task. we all know the work you will do is necessary and we should all want every government agency to be as efficient as p

mr. garcia is recognized for five minutes per. >> thank you tour witnesses. administrator, i also want to pass along my thanks to everyone at the agency pretty special the taxpayer advocate service. my team back home is really impressed working with the team and really dedicated servants and is not always an easy job. just recently a constituent of mine reached out to identity theft issues had not received tax returns in 2021 or 2022 we worked with your office and the tax serviceorking really hard to give folks the earned dollars back. so thank you for that. glad we're having this hearing and i know the irs often times faces a very difficult task. we all know the work you do is necessary we should all every government agency to be as efficient as possible at work as effectively as possible but better irs means better customer service, better refunds meet a better economy everyone recognizes this and obviously when congress passes a law we should also be enforcing it. enforcement is so important. something is very focused on when i was mayor of long beach befo

mr. garcia. it's my understanding that the epa is in the process of finalizing regulations that are ultimately going to rapidly increase the sale of both passenger electrical vehicles as well as medium and heavy duty electric vehicles, everything from delivery vans to long haul trucks. june report by the u.s. chamber of commerce found epa's regulatory analysis of proposed power plant rule ignores massive amounts of electricity demand resulting from epa's own ev and hydrogen mandates. this report, i'm not sure if you've seen it or not, from the chamber of commerce, says that the epa is ignoring 371 hours of electricity resulting from its own rules and this is equivalent to 9% of the nationwide demand or one and a halftimes the electricity used each year in the state of california. it's easy for administrators to claim that a proposed rule doesn't cost anything. if it ignores the real world cost it required to comply with it. that is not the reality. and understand that even good ideas depending on

garcia, you took a couldn't evening but mr. howard, my name, i'm here at the store and it's difficult. yes, totally to should isn't near to guy. yeah. well, she is. it's a difficult now there's a separately is the of the school barber school. yeah, i do. i didn't get it done. you moved to me or you wouldn't use a study. her team is a black mom and the additional, the ocean teacher lady, a cousin, brand b e. so is that a for me? you said i was in your style what it says that the world most and those are the start ends. good. will it feel us but of the well, it don't hesitate to use it. no machine and us plus a lot of it. when it is the last to turn, you put them up. ok. they're getting ready for portals made to go for the budget. you guys just incorporate, you want them getting a little bit of static, fewer shut the bose that kind of special as much as light and so back you, if you see a solution that what i would use a us and that is what to do, what you will go yeah, you've been with us. it was for sure that much it do i have

mr. bochy. what a night for the rangers. garcia was 4-5 with five rbis and two bombs.s honored with the alcs mvp award and rangers win it beating houston 11-4 was the final score. to advance to the world series. and bochy's first year with the club. now texas is the third different team by the way that he has taken to the fall classic. >> it's great to be here. it's unreal that i'm here to be honest. i mean, i'm -- sitting at the house for three years. and think here i am going to the world series. you know, yeah, that's special. >> i am not surprised. according to reports, after the game, dusty baker told people in the astros' organization that he will step down as manager. he led houston to four postseason appearances including a world series win last season and what a run for dusty baker as well. i mean, both of them -- i mean he should be very proud even though they couldn't beat the rangers this time. >> i don't think he's done with baseball. just trying to figure out where he's going to pivot but his wife melissa said he can build a winner, he's a winner. she kno

mr. bochy. what a night for the rangers although garcia was 4-5 with five rbis and two bombs.e was honored with the alcs mvp award. rangers in houston, final was 11-4. to advance to the world series and bochy's very first year with the club by the way. texas by the way is the third different team he has taken to the fall classic. >> it's great to be here. it's unreal that i'm here to be honest. i mean, i was -- sitting at the house for three years and think here i am going to the world series. you know, yeah, that's special. >> and according to reports, after the game, dusty baker told people in the astros' organization that he will step down as manager. he led houston to four postseason appearances including a world series win last season. >>> well, as for the nlcs the phillies thought they had it in the bag in their home stadium. leading the diamondbacks three games to two. but two innings in, arizona got hot. they knocked in three runs. including a double from former giants' third baseman evan longoria. they had the phillies in their dedicated fans in their grips. so arizon

mr. chairman i yield back. >> thank you very much. the gentleman from california cmr. garcia is recognized for five minutes. >> thank thank you, mr. cha. thank you to our witnesses. administrator were full i want to pass along my thanks to everyone at the agency. especially the taxpayer advocate service. my tobacco is impressed with working with the team and really dedicated surface by no set an easy job. just recently a constituentnt of mine reached out front in the theft issues, had not received tax returns in 2021 or 2022. we worked with her office and attacks advocacy service and able to get over $16,000 to her. this is the story we are over and over again in her office and so that would not be possible without the team of workers you happens i want to thank you and remind folks that yes, this is a hard business but there's people were given hard to get folks there earned dollars back so thank you for that. i'm glad were having this hearing and any of the irs oftentimes faces a difficult task. we all know the work you do is necessary and we should all want every governmen