mr. jeffries for a minute and a half. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 90 seconds. mr. jeffries: i thank the distinguished gentlelady from new york for yielding. give me your tired yes or noing to breathe free. those are on the statue of liberty that stands tall in new york harbor. but today, we are here in this chamber doing violence to a model that has served this country well. we have a humanitarian crisis in this country. tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have fled violence in central america and migrated to our southern border. but our response has not been consistent with the notion that america is a country of individuals from all over the world and a compassionate one. lady liberty is crying right now because of the callous response of house republicans. some of the children who have come here may not have a valid, legal basis to remain, but some will. if a child has a credible fear of persecution, if a child was abused, abandoned or neglected by a parent, if a child was victimize

mr. jeffries. >> thank you, mr. chair. i thank the ranking member, both for your leadership on this issue. we know that 50 years ago, january of 1964, i believe, president lyndon johnson came to the floor of the house of representatives for a joint session of congress and declared a war on poverty. that war on poverty has largely been successful in helping millions of americans lift themselves out of an impoverished condition and set on a pathway toward the middle class. of course, there's still a long way to go. although it does seem in this town there are some more interested in a war on working families than a war on poverty. but that's something that we're going to ultimately have to overcome as well. in the context of this present hearing, i thought i'd start with ms. reynolds just to kind of explore the perspective that you laid out. i believe, i guess in your experience, you've laid out three broad categories of poverty, is that correct? >> correct. >> and those three categories are chronic, generational and situati

mr. jeffries. >> thank you, mr. chair. i thank the ranking member, both for your leadership on this issue. we know that 50 years ago, january of 1964, i believe, president lyndon johnson came to the floor of the house of representatives for a joint session of congress and declared a war on poverty. that war on poverty has largely been successful in helping millions of americans lift themselves out of an impoverished condition and set on a pathway toward the middle class. of course, there's still a long way to go. although it does seem in this town there are some more interested in a war on working families than a war on poverty. but that's something that we're going to ultimately have to overcome as well. in the context of this present hearing, i thought i'd start with ms. reynolds just to kind of explore the perspective that you laid out. i believe, i guess in your experience, you've laid out three broad categories of poverty, is that correct? >> correct. >> and those three categories are chronic, generational and situati

mr. jeffries. >> thank you, and let me thank the witnesses for their testimony and the work on this important issues. starting with mr. heck, you testified earlier today, i believe appropriately that automatic blanket across the board of collateral consequence is counter productive. in that regard, how would you suggest the committee or the task force look at how the collateral consequences you believe maybe appropriate in certain circumstances are narrowly tailored to fit it severity of crime so we don't broadly sweep individuals into this blanket fashion? >> i do think some collateral consequences if applied across the board are not relevant to that particular case or offender. that is what the law isn't looking at: at the offender not the offense. in ohio, if someone owes child support and they are not paying the child support their drivers' license is suspended. i told the prosecutors we are not going to ask for that and say it should not be done. we are asking the person to pay child support and saying you cannot have a job to pay it. so we have to look at the collateral consequences and

mr. jeffries from new york you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr.air and i thank the distinguished panel before us. that is consistent of course with the constitutional landscape and the fact that prevention of crime wasn't necessary and enumerating the power given to congress that was left to the state into the amendment. the majority of individuals who are incarcerated in this country right now are in the state system is that correct? >> above 217,000 on the federal law of prisons. >> the state experience is a relative indicator of what could potentially happen if the criminal justice reform occurs the correct? >> that is correct in the qualification. it is one that i would build on the experience as well as my own as an assistant attorney. the federal prison population is not like the state prison population. the state's turned over to the fed to talk about the broad range facilities and the kind of people that you find in the federal prisons are the ones that the state didn't have the toughness or the resources or the sentencing system to deal w

mr. president you can't do this. it's unconstitutional. you know it. we want to stop the funding for daca. that's the message. >> we have a minute left and i want to bring in congressman jeffries. back in 2008, some members of your party, democrats filed bills to impeach george w. bush for his conduct of the iraq war. is this any different than what democrats did to president bush? >> of course it's completely different. house republicans are clearly taking us on a march towards impeachment -- >> did democrats take the house on a march towards impeachment in 2008? >> not at all because then speaker nancy pelosi clearly said impeachment is off the table. congress has several other -- >> basically that's what john boehner said this week too, sir. >> john boehner did not say that. he not make an unequivocal statement. john boehner took position before he won't shut down the government but he moved forward and shut down the government for 16 days, costing the american people $24 million in lost economic activity. so there's no real credibility there. we're not clear who actually is running the house of representatives. ted cruz the junior senator from texas seems to have outside i