mr. wilson? mr. wilson votes no. mr. long? mr. long no. mr. larson? mr. larson votes no. mr. bishop? mr. bishop votes no. mr. cooper? mr. cooper aye. mr. turner? mr. turner votes no. mr. cline? mr. cline votes no. mr. courtney? mr. courtney votes aye. mr. rogers? mr. rogers votes no. mr. franks? mr. franks votes no. mr. johnson? mr. johnson votes aye. mr. conway? mr. conway no. ms. spear? ms. spear votes aye. mr. castro? mr. castro votes aye. mr. hunter? mr. hunter votes no. mr. peters? mr. peters votes no. dr. flemming? dr. flemming votes no. mr. gibson? mr. gibson votes no. mr. walls? mr. walls votes no. mr. o'rourke? mr. o'rourke votes no. dr. heck? dr. heck votes no. mr. scott? mr. scott votes no. mr. brooks? mr. brooks votes no. mr. nugent? no. ms. graham? ms. graham votes no. mr. multin? mr. multin votes no. mr. burns? mr. burns votes no. mr. graves? mr. graves votes no. mr. knight? mr. knight votes no. mr. mccarther? mr. mccarther votes no. mr. russell? mr. russell votes no. >> crashing will report the vote. >> 13 aye votes and 49 no votes. >> chairman thornberry? no. mr. jones? mr

mr. forbes. mr. forbes. mr. brady votes aye. mr. miller. mr. miller votes no. mrs. davis. mrs. davis. aye. mrs. davis votes aye. mr. wilson. mr. wilson votes no. mr. longevi snchlt votes aye. mr. lobiondo votes no. mr. larsen. mr. larsen votes aye. mr. bishop. mr. bishop votes no. mr. cooper. mr. cooper votes aye. mr. turner. mr. turner. ms. bredaio. ms. bredaio votes no. mr. klein. mr. klein votes no. mr. courtney. >> aye. >> mr. courtney votes aye. mr. rogers. mr. rogers votes no. miss songas. >> miss songas votes aye. mr. franks. mr. franks votes no. mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi votes aye. mr. schuster. mr. schuster votes no. mr. johnson. mr. johnson votes aye. mr. conaway votes no. miss spear. miss spear votes aye. mr. lambourne. mr. lambourne votes no. mr. castro. mr. castro votes aye. mr. whitman. mr. whitman votes no. ms. duckworth. ms. duckworth votes aye. mr. hunter. >> no. >> mr. hunter votes no. mr. peters. >> aye. >> mr. peters votes aye. dr. fleming. dr. fleming votes no. mr. vici. mr. vici. mr. vici votes aye. mr. kaufman. mr. kaufman votes no. ms. gabbard. ms. gabbard votes aye. m

mr. enzi no. mr. cornyn. mr. cornyn. mr. cornyn no. mr. thune. mr. thune no. mr. burr. mr. burr no. mr. isakson. mr. isakson no. mr. portman. mr. 30r9man no. mr. toomey. mr. toomey no. mr. coats. mr. coats no. mr. haller. mr. haller no. mr. scott. mr. scott no. mr. wyden. mr. wyden no. mr. schumer. mr. schumer aye. miss stabenow. miss stabenow aye. miss cantwell aye. mr. nelson aye. mr. menendez ez aye. mr. carper no. mr. cardin. mr. cardin aye. mr. brown aye. mr. bennett. mr. bennett aye. mr. casey. mr. casey aye. mr. warner. mr. warner no. mr. chairman. the chairman votes no. mr. chairman, the final tally is nine ayes, 17 nays. >> the amendment is defeated. are we getting close to the end here? senator burr, you're next. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to call up portman number 2, and that's committee number 88. and i'll say to the chairman, he will not love me like he loves senator bennett because i will have to have a recorded vote on this. but i will be very brief. and i have great affection for the chairman and for the tax he's got in front of him. i thank my colleagues for their support

mr. pendlerob and mrs. mrs. mrs. mrs. pendlerob. >>> mr. bob cheever, mrs. patricia kiefer.

mr. grassley. mr. crapo? mr. roberts? mr. ensy? mr. corning? mr. thun? no by proxy. mr. isaacson, aye. mr. tumi? no. mr. heller? mr. heller, no. mr. scott? aye. mr. schumer? aye. ms. stavano, aye. cantwell, no. mr. nelson aye. menendez, carper, aye by proxy. mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett, aye. mr. casey aye. mr. warner aye by proxy. mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to -- >> who is it? >> i meant to vote no. >> that's fine. change that vote. >> mr. ensy, no. >> tally up the vote. >> mr. chairman, 18 ayes and 8 nays. >> you know how to smother me. >> with love, mr. chairman. >> boo. >> is that the new york type of love? that's what i'd like to know. all right. senator bennett i think you're next. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to call up amendment number one as modified. i'd like to ask unanimous consent to add chairman hatch and senator carper as co-sponsors of the bill. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. chairman. for all the reasons that's been said, we're all concerned about china's repeated efforts to adopt economic policyies and weaken their currency and cost

mr. nelson? mr. menendez? mr. corker? mr. bennett? mr. warner? >> chairman votes no. >> the amendment is agreed to. who is next? >> mr. chairman do we already announce? i would ask consent it will not change the outcome if you vote aye. >> without objection. >> okay. who wants to be recognized for any further amendments >> mr. chairman? >> okay. >> i have an amendment and it states a principle negotiating objective of future trade agreements would be the mutual elimination of state-sponsored financing institutions. when the state sponsored finance institution was reauthorized in 2012, congress requires the treasury secretary and i quote initiate and pursue negotiations to reduce with the goal of eliminating subsidize programs. the treasury has failed to meaning meaning meaningfully comply. there are no explanations of what concrete steps were taken pursuant to the law to reduce the subsidies. here is the simple reality. taxpayers are required to subsidize certain companies through the bank. that is what happened fe what happens. that is not good e

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mr. crowley: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert nye statement into the record -- my statement into the record that the house should focus on the real priorities of americans instead of another attack on women's health care. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentlewoman from alabama for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. sewell sewell mr. speaker, i ask -- ms. sewell: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement into the record that the house should focus on the real priorities of the american people instead of another attack on women's health. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentlewoman from new york for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mr. vela: mr. speaker i ask -- ms. velazquez: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement into the record that the house should f

mr. castro, yields back. the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, is recognized. mr. mccaul: mr. chairman, i yield to the gentleman for as much time as he may consume the gentleman from texas, mr. hurd. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. hurd: mr. speaker thank you. mr. chairman, thank you for your work and making this amendment to happen. i ask my colleagues to support this amendment to h.r. 1731. cybersecurity is not just a buzz word. oftentimes large companies and governments have plans in place to mitigate and respond to cyberthreats. many smaller state and local entities do not. this is why i co-sponsored and have the support of representative castro's amendment to h.r. 1731. five leading universities across the nation have teamed up to face these cyberissues head on including the university of texas at state of the union and my alma mater, texas a&m university. the proposed consortium would provide valuable training to local first responders in the event of a catastrophic cyberattack. it would provide technical assistance s

mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: thank you. mr. president, i send to the desk my motion to instruct conferees. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: the senator from vermont, mr. sanders, moves that the mearption on the part of the senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the house amendment to the resolution, s. concurrent resolution 11, be instructed to insist -- mr. sanders: mr. president, i would ask that the motion be dispensed with. the presiding officer: wowcts. -- without objection. mr. sanders: mr. president as i mentioned earlier i happen to believe that the republican budget that we will be discussing today moves us in exactly the wrong direction. at a time when the middle class is in decline and the gap between the very, very rich and everybody else is growing wider what the republican budget does is make ferocious attacks on programs desperately depended upon by working families while at the same time, providing outrageous tax breaks to the very wealthiest of t

mr. portman. awe. mr. tomby. awe. mr. cooks. mr. heller. awe. mr. scott. mr. burr. by proxy. mr. scott. mr. schumer. awe. mr. schumer. awe. stab know. mr. parker. mr. brown. by proxy. awe. and mr. warner. awe. and mr. chairman. mr. roberts. will announce the vote. mr. chairman. 18 ideas. 8 nays. yeah. mr. chairman. i would like to change my vote to no. want to change the outcome? no. it will not. my understanding is that it was a final passage. yeah. when you asked if there was further amendments. talking about. enjoying this so much. didn't want to forego the possibility here. all right. we will move along here. and considering the chairman. and a bill to extent african growth opportunity. and the generalized preferences and the duty treatment program for haiti. and for other purposes. considering legislation extenting and first let me say that during months of hard work and toughing inations ranking numbers were able to reach agreement on the bill with the ways and means committee chairman ryan. and ranking member 11 the result of the legislation to be considered in the house. and i hope t

mr. chairman. mr. horowitz mr. lynch really hit on something with respect to the good old boy culture and this is my concern that i'm seeing more and more of the good old boy culture as this committee continues its investigation. i mean, we've seen it with the d.e.a. sex parties. we've seen it with some of the things going on in the secret service admittedly, not subject to this. we see -- we see it in a lot of government agencies. in your investigation, do you get a sense that there is a good old boy mentality? is it as bad as i think it is? inspector general horowitz: it's interesting, congressman, you used those words. because our was the good old boy roundups in the 1990's. we did a report in the 1996 about the culture and the need to make it clear about what is permissible and what clearly isn't permissible off-duty and yet we're 20 years later and there are still no departmentwide policies or training. ms. farenthold: ms. leonhart, you run the d.e.a. do you think it's appropriate in your offtime do engage pros

mr. grassley? >> no. >> no. mr. crapo? >> no. >> mr. roberts? mr. robert no. mr. enzi? >> no. >> mr. cornyn? >> no by proxy. >> mr. cornyn no by proxy. mr. burr? >> no by proxy. >> mr. burr no by proxy. mr. isaac son? >> no. >> mr. portman? >> aye. >> mr. toomey? >> no. >> mr. coates? >> no. >> mr. heller? >> no. >> mr. scott? >> no by proxy. >> no by proxy. mr. widen? >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> aye by proxy. >> ms. stab my? >> aye. >> ms. cantwell? >> aye. >> mr. nelson? >> aye. >> mr. menendez? >> aye. >> mr. carper? >> aye. >> mr. cardin? >> aye. >> mr. brown? >> aye. >> mr. bennett? >> aye. >> mr. casey? >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. mr. warner? >> aye. >> mr. warner aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> the chairman votes no. mr. chairman, 12 ayes, 14 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. any other amendments for the taa bill? senator cantwell? >> mr. chairman? yes, i wanted to thank you and ranking member wyden for including my amendment to approve collection of labor statistics in the chairman's modified mark on the customs and enforcement bill. i filed two amendments that i believe are c

mr. hatch. the senator from wyoming, mr. barrasso. the senator from missouri, mr. blunt. the senator from mississippi mr. economicer. the senator from tennessee, mr. corker. the senator from illinois, mr. durbin. the senator from washington, miss murray. the senator from maryland, mr. cardin. and the senator from hawaii -- the senator from hawaii, ms. hirono. the speaker: members of the escort committee will leave through the lobby doors. >> mr. speaker the acting dean of the diplomatic corps. >> mr. speaker, the president's cabinet. >> mr. speaker the prime minister of japan. the speaker: members of congress i have the high privilege and the distinct honor of presenting to you his excellency shinzo abe prime minister of japan. prime minister abe: mr. speaker, mr. vice president distinguished members of the senate and the house, distinct guests, ladies and gentlemen, back in june, 1957 my grandfather standing right here as prime minister of japan began his address by saying and i quote it is because of our strong belief in democratic principles and ideas that japan associa

mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. lee: mr. president? mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of senate resolution 139 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 13-6bg9s commemorating the 20th anniversary of the attack on the alfred p. murrah federal building. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection the senate will proceed. mr. lee: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that the rolingsresolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president i rise today to honor governor norm bangator who served as utah's 13th governor from 1985 to 1993. he was a truly extraordinary man and an exceptional leader. he passed away this past tuesday, april 14, at the age of 82. he loved utah and he loved this great nation. as a vete

mr. roskham, mr. marchant, mr. meehan, mr. holding, mr. renacci, all of who are involved in doing rigorous oversight who have found problems and acted on behalf of hardworking taxpayers to right these wrongs. and with that, mr. speaker, i would like to yield such time as he may consume, the author of 1058 the chairman of the oversight committee, the person in charge of our investigation, a member of the ways and means committee mr. roskham. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a very sobering thing to get a letter from the internal revenue service and not know what's inside. now it's one thing, mr. speaker, if you go to the mailbox and it's one of those ones that's a little bit colorful and you're like, hey, that's a tax refund in there. isn't that a delightful piece of mail? and everybody's happy to see that. when you get one of those other ones that is black and white and the nefarious print, you know what it means, it sends a chill through you. why does it send a chill through you

mr. pendlerob and mrs. mrs. mrs. mrs. pendlerob. >>> mr. bob cheever, mrs. tricia kiefer. [ inaudible ]. >>> mr. james barnes and mrs. heather barnes. >>> the honorable -- [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ]. >>> mr. john runes and mrs. mrs. runes. >>> honorable -- [ inaudible ]. >>> honorable rose -- and mr. frank rhodes. >>> some of the arrival at the booksellers room and up to the north portico. president obama and first lady michelle obama preparing to greet tonight's honored guest the prime minister of japan shinzo abe and his wife. live coverage here on c-span3. ♪ >>> the president and first lady welcoming prime minister shinzo abe of japan and his wife to the white house. you're on c-span3 and take you back live. the booksellers area where other guests are arriving for tonight's state dinner for shinzo abe and his wife. live coverage here on c-span3. ♪ >>> mr. bob dan and mrs. rainy dan. ♪ [ inaudible ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the home daniel russell and ms. kito russell. >>> [ inaudible ] ♪ >>> the honorable kito chen. >>> mr. ron and mrs. john olivere. >>> mr. paul

mr. grassley. mr. roberts. mr. corning. no bright -- by proxy. mr. isaacson. mr. toomey. mr. oates aye. mr. scott. mr. wyden. no. missed cantwell -- ms. cantwell. mr. menendez. aye. >> no instruction. clerk: mr. brown. no by proxy. mr. warner. aye by proxy. mr. warner is aye by proxy. mr. chairman. german votes no -- mr. german votes no. the amendment is not agreed to. senator nelson, you are next. senator nelson: you said you would prefer me to offer the amendment to the customs bill. is that correct? i have filed it to both goa and the customs bill. your choice. this is a preferable bill. this is the preference for bahrain. that is the location the united states navy 5th fleet in the persian gulf. they bring in yarn and fabric and make it into garments and textiles. you all asked me to modify it, and this is the modified amendment so that the preference is conditional on the labor department certifying that the bahrain is living up to its labor commitment. i think that is a reasonable compromise. now, the reason that this is super important to me, there is a town in florida'

mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, how much time is remaining on the democratic side? the presiding officer: 20 minutes. mr. durbin: thank you. i'll be very brief because i see my colleague from connecticut here. and let me say at the outset in the most positive way, i want to thank senator cornyn and senator klobuchar of minnesota for their bipartisan effort to bring this issue to the floor and to the senate judiciary committee. had a hearing in a subcommittee on this subject and it was heartbreaking to here about the exploitation of these young women at such a tender age. unspeakable things were happening to them. sadly, in many states when they were -- finally came into the custody of law enforcement, some of them, some of the children, these young girls were being charged as criminals until it was clear that they had been enslaved and they had been exploited for so many years. so the thinking on the subject is moving in the right direction and the suggestions of senator cornyn and senator klobuchar are al

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for one minute. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senator from minnesota be given one minute in morning business prior to the republican time. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mrs. murray: thank you mr. president. mr. president, from the very beginning of this discussion on the trafficking bill and the underlying issue members on both side of the aisle agreed we need to get this bill back on track as the bipartisan effort it should be. because without question, survivors of trafficking deserve our support. senator klobuchar has done an amazing job getting us to this point to get this bill done, and i'm pleased that we were able to reach a deal that now gets this done in a way that does not expand restrictions on women's health to non-taxpayer dollars or to new programs and provides survivors with real

mr. bishop, and thank you again, mr. blumenauer. mr. bishop: may i inquire of the chafe are chair of how much time is left? the chair: approximately one minute on your striking of the last word. mr. bishop: i'd like to yield to the gentlelady, ms. titus. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. titus: thank you very much for yielding. i just want to say very simply that we short change our veterans. if we don't give them the opportunity to have every possible medical treatment that is out there. we know that certain states have legalized medical marijuana. in those states our veterans deserve to have that as an option. to short change them is just unconscionable and i urge a yes vote. the chair: does the gentleman from georgia wish to yield back? mr. bishop: yes. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. blumenauer: may i inquire as to the time remaining? the chair: 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from oregon and 3 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. blum

mr. gutierrez. mr. gutierrez: thank you, mr. speaker. what would it be like if the chamber and this government reflected the diversity of the american people? they would be a lot more portraits of women alongside all the portraits of committee chairmen of the past decades. in 2015 it wouldn't be news worthy when a competent intelligent person who happens to be african-american is hired for a job which she is supremely qualified, which happened this week when loretta lynch was sworn in as our 83rd attorney general. and we wouldn't still be talking about unequal pay for equal work. i believe that if there is a country that truly believes in equality, it's time to put our money where our mouths are literally, and express that sense of justice on the most widely used currency in international transaction. last week i introduced the put a woman on the 20 act to build on the grassroots campaign working to bring gender equality to our currency. their public campaign has garnered more than half a million votes in support of putting a woman on a 2

mr. smith: mr. speaker, i request unanimous consent to allow mr. of texas to manage the time for the ways and means committee. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: i appreciate the gentleman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i thank the gentleman from nebraska for his leadership on ending this terrible tax. can you imagine working your whole life to build up a family-owned business or a farm and then upon your death uncle sam swoops in and takes nearly half of what you spent a lifetime building up for your children and grandchildren. can you imagine in this case, my friend from washington talked about this was a farm that had been in this family since the 1880's, five generations. it didn't start that size. it started small. they built up over years and years and generations and generations. when the young woman went back to texas, she worked up here, went back to texas to settle her aunt's estate. she and her brother were

mr. ryan: mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to thank mr. kelly, a member of the ways and means committee, along with minority ranking member for their diligence in uncovering this problem also. you're seeing a theme here, mr. speaker, which is, both the republican and democratic side of the ways and means committee in conducting oversight saw abuse that is need oed to be fixed. we are fixing these abuses so that they can't happen again in this statute. for the purpose of describing this particular legislation, i'd like to yield such time as he may consume to the author of the bill, mr. kelly. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kelly: i'd like to thank the chairman. mr. speaker, h.r. 1026 has been described, this had come before congress before dr. boustany and mr. roskam presented this. this is about taxpayer knowledge of i.r.s. investigations. now, this would make sense to almost everybody to understand what exactly's been going on. under 6103 it's a felonyle to disclose or compromise people's tax information and give

mr. mcgovern: would the gentleman yield for a unanimous consent request? mr. sessions: i would yield to the gentleman. mr. mcgovern: i wonder if you could let us reclaim some of our time and we yielded back and two of our speakers showed up. mr. sessions: i reserve. mr. mcgovern: reclaiming my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: i yield three minutes to ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for three minutes. ms. delauro: i rise to ask members to defeat the previous question so the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, can offer an amendment to the house to consider the fairness pay check act. my bill would finish the job started by the equal pay act some 50 years ago. it would end require that pay disparities are not based on gender and passing the bill gives teeth to the principle, men and women in the same job deserve same pay. it passed the house twice already with bipartisan support, i might add. it has come two votes shy of passing in the other body. president obama has called on us to pass it. the american people know

mr. price: thank you mr. speaker. mr. speaker, let me begin by thanking everyone involved in getting us to this moment where we have an agreement between the house and the senate budget conferees on a joint balanced budget proposal before the congress. all members of our committee and the conference committee and their staffs should be commended for their hard work and i want to commend specifically the staff directors on both sides of the aisle. rick and tom made certain their respective members were prepared for the activity we've gone through over the past four months. we are set, mr. speaker, to adopt the first balanced budget of this kind in over a decade. that's important not only from an historical perspective but also for what it says about this congress' commitment to doing the work that the american people sent us here to do. to get it done. to move forward. with positive solutions for a healthier economy and a stronger more secure nation. what we have before us today mr. speaker, is a budget that balances within

mr. meadows: mr. chairman, -- mr. chaffetz: will the gentleman yield? mr. meadows: yes. mr. haffetz: we're asking you to provide the information to the inspector general. will you or would you not do that? miss leonhart: if it was up to me to give it to you -- mr. chaffetz: you are the administrator. you are the administrator. who do you have to ask? who do you report to? miss leonhart: the documents that are going to your committee -- mr. chaffetz: we're asking you to give them to the inspector general. miss leonhart: in if the inspector general wants that, we will give it. are mr. chaffetz: does the inspector general want that information? >> i would be happy to take that information to look into the issue. mr. chaffetz: will be inspector general report out to this committee about these particular individuals? as suggested, the more senior person wasn't directly involved, was involved, was he not? miss leonhart: he was not involved in the activities. mr. chaffetz: did he properly report up the chain of command? miss leonhart: he didn't report it to the right place. mr. chaf

mr. nunes: if the gentleman will yield? mr. ruppersberger: yes. mr. nunes: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thanked you in my opening statement, mr. ruppersberger. without your leadership and chairman -- former chairman rogers' leadership on this bill we would not be here today and , i'm encouraged not only by your past support but then by you taking the time to come down here to speak on this bill, i think it says a lot about you and your commitment to national security and the security of our cybernetworks. so thank you and i yield back. ruppersberger: i yield back my time and thank you for your leadership. this legislation is similar to the bill that chairman rogers and i introduced to promote information sharing between the private and public sectors which is the single most important thing we can do to combat increasingly aggressive cyberattacks. experts believe these attacks are costing american corporations billions of dollars each year. target, home depot are only the beginning. with sony we saw the first destructive attack in our country.

mr. president. it looks like our colleague from vermont is here. mr. sanders: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: thank you. mr. president, later today we are going to begin a discussion of the budget, and as you know the budget is a set of national priorities. a budget has to do with our vision of where america is and where america should be. and we are now in the process of moving the budget to a conference committee between the house and the senate mr. president, when i think about a budget, i think about a document which is designed to address the problems facing our country, and in that regard i find the republican budget that will likely pass to be totally totally inadequate and a budget whose priorities are way way way out of place with where the american people are. when we talk about the needs of america, the most significant need and the most significant economic problem we face is that for 40 years the american middle class has been in decline. today we have over 40 million americans living in poverty almost more than any tim

mr. schiff, reserves. the gentleman from california, mr. nunes, is recognized. mr. nunes: at this time we're still awaiting speakers to come down, madam chair, so i'll continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman from california, mr. nunes, reserves. the gentleman from california, mr. schiff, is recognized. mr. schiff: madam speaker i'm -- madam chairman, i yield three minutes to mr. swalwell, another of our ranking members on the intelligence committee and a colleague from california. mr. swalwell: thank you. i want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for bringing forth this necessary legislation. as we speak right now americans are under attack, and these attacks are not coming in the form of anything that we have been used to before. people are not kicking down front doors of homes and businesses. instead, they're attacking us through our networks. . our bank accounts, our cell phones are being hacked every day. cnn reported in 2014h half of the nation's adults were hacked. 70% -- 70 million target customers were hacked.

mr. reed: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize again, april as sexual assault awareness month. mr. speaker, we must stand up and raise awareness across this country that sexual assault and domestic violence can no longer be allowed to exist in our country. we must be proactive on raising awareness on this issue. that is why i come to this floor today to do just that. each member democrat, republican, east west, north south, has an opportunity and i hope they join me to do this throughout april to say no more to sexual assault in the united states of america. mr. speaker, every two minutes another american is sexually assaulted. every two minutes. that is 237,868 victims, our fellow citizens a year, that are impacted -- 237, 868 victims, our fellow citizens a year, that are impacted by this assault and violence. one of the things we need to do on top of raising awareness is change our culture in america. earlier this month a graphic video was shown across this nation and across this world of a gang

mr. mulvaney: did you see permission? mr. salesses: i was not aware. mr. huerta: i understood it to be a scheduling issue. we were offered an alternative time and did not hear back. mr. mulvaney: you were one that did agree to come. i yield my time to the chairman. chairman chaffetz: -- >> they were planning to schedule a proper witness to, attend, i did attend the following day. chief dine: i was here last week. mr. mulvaney: i yield the balance of my time to the chairman. chairman chaffetz: i recognize mr. walker for five minutes. mr. walker: i want to look at the timeline. let me back up for a second. how many different agencies or departments were contacted by the tampa bay times reporter? who did he reach out to? secret service? chief dine, when did you get contact? chief dine: a few minutes before he landed. 12:59. mr. walker: he lands? walk me through with what you did in those 22, 23 minutes. just for my own education. chief dine: 12:59 was the e-mail, sent to the investigative division to try and pull up information and one minute later he called t

mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this bill that would add hundreds of billions of dollars to our deficit to deliver a windfall to the heirs of the wealthiest estates in the country. although the republican budget holds that we must make draconian cuts to domestic programs, in the name of physical can prudence, proms that help the middle class, infirmed, the republican leadership lauds a bill that would provide inequality in our nation and give an average tax break of $3 million to the most secure. . in my congressional district the median income is $48,481. the unemployment rate for african-americans is 24.5%. the poverty level for children is 38.3%, and the poverty rate for the elderly is 21.4%. and over 63,000 households receive food stamps. in the state of illinois over 13000 children are homeless. at the end of last year, chicago had the highest -- fifth highest foreclosure rate in the nation. this bill is fiscally irresponsible and reflects misplaced priorities for our nation. we

mr. mcdermott: thank you. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this bill that would add hundreds of billions of dollars to our deficit to deliver a windfall to the heirs of the wealthiest estates in the country. although the republican budget holds that we must make draconian cuts to domestic programs, in the name of physical can prudence, proms that help the middle class, infirmed, the republican leadership lauds a bill that would provide inequality in our nation and give an average tax break of $3 million to the most secure. . in my congressional district the median income is $48,481. the unemployment rate for african-americans is 24.5%. the poverty level for children is 38.3%, and the poverty rate for the elderly is 21.4%. and over 63,000 households receive food stamps. in the state of illinois over 13000 children are homeless. at the end of last year, chicago had the highest -- fifth highest foreclosure rate in the nation. this bill is fiscally irresponsible and reflects misplaced priorities for our nation.

mr. hastings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i'd inquire how much time remains for both sides mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida has 9 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from georgia has 7 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'd advise my friend from georgia through you that i have no further speakers and i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is prepared to close for the minority. mr. woodall: mr. speaker, i'm also prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized to close debate. mr. hastings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i won't utilize all the time but i do wish to ask that statement of administration policy wrches to both these -- with reference to both these matters be put in the record by unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, while i'm pleased with the level of support provided in these pieces of legislation for essential military, veterans, defense and water resources program they should not serve as

mr. chairman -- mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. corker: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. corker: i'd like to ask unanimous consent in a moment but first i want to thank the distinguished senator from new jersey who has as much as anybody in this entire congressional body, both house and senate -- actually he and senator kirk, lead stalwarts on iran and without his efforts we wouldn't even be in negotiation right now. and i cannot think him enough for his -- thank him enough for his positive contributions for his leadership as ranking member and chairman. i want to thank him. i at this point would like to ask unanimous consent that the time until 6:10 today be equally divided in the usual form and that following the use or yielding back of that time the senate vote on the following amendment: johnson number 1150. further that there be no second-degree amendments in order to the amendment and that it require 60 -- a 60 affirmative vote threshold for the adoption of the amendment. the presiding officer: is there objection

mr. smith. i look forward to hearing from you, sir. please proceed. mr. smith: good morning mr. roberts and ranking member stabenow and ranking members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss our recent amendmentses to the cuban assets control regulations and implications for agricultural trade with cuba. on december 17, the president announced a number of significant policy changes regarding our relationship with cuba. to implement the policy changes, treasury's office of foreign assets control or ofac, amended the control regulations and our colleagues at the department of commerce amended the export administration regulations on january 16. these amendments ease sanctions related to cuba and a number of key areas. including trade financial services traffic and remittances. this is to help the cuban people freely determine their own future. ofac expanded the finance provisions to allow america's agricultural exporters to be more competitive in selling their wares to cuba. ofac broadened the ability of u.s. financial institutions to

mr. mchenry, is recognized for two minutes. mr. mchenry: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank my colleague, mr. huizenga, for his hard work on this piece of legislation. well crafted and a very important reform, the american people need to understand and appreciate. what the american people understand is that washington regulation is preventing them americans, from realizing the dream of home ownership. these arbitrary washington-created barriers are keeping young people, recently married couples, low and middle income americans from accessing mortgages they they -- they need to own a home. that's wrong. right now consumers are bearing the brunt of regulatory overreach under dodd-frank. according to the most recent housing data, the u.s. home openership rate is now the lowest it has been in 20 years. young homeowners are being hit particularly hard. for example in my district the number of young homeowners fell to a level not seen since the year 2000. that's unacceptable. combined, these figures with recent reports indicating serious distress in the credit marke

mr. president i yield the floor. mr. merkley: mr. president? he presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i rise to draw attention to the danger of tobacco products ensnaring our looks and rise to urge the f.d.a. to take long overdue action to protect our children from these products. first, i want to thank senators who are coming to the floor today to join in making this critically important point. senator boxer is here, and she'll be speaking next, and other senators are planning to join us. i so much appreciate them lifting their voices on this important issue. mr. president, dr. richard wender the chief cancer control officer for the american cancer society, said last year on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the landmark surgeon general report on smoking and health -- and i quote -- "the single greatest threat to the future control of tobacco is complacency." and we are here today to call attention to a dangerous complacency that threatens the lives of our children. a complacency in completing rules that are essential t

mr. president. mr. durbin: mr. president? mr. leahy: would the senator yield for a moment? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: i ask consent that -- to set aside the pending amendment to call up amendment 290. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the snr from vermont, mr. leahy foyer himself and proposes amendment number 290. mr. leahy: i ask that further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president i want to speak briefly in support of the remarks of the senator from maine and the senator from vermont. the cornyn approach on runaway and homeless youth excludes language that would prohibit -- prohibit -- discrimination against the recipients of these services because of their sexual orientation. how can we have reached that point in the united states senate? haven't we engaged in a national debate that centered on indiana and other states? haven't we decided in america

mr. ikicson. no. mr. portman. ay aye. mr. toomey. aye. mr. coates. aye. mr. heller. aye. mr. scott. aye. mr. wyden aye. mr. schumer. no. mrs. stabenow, no. mr. nelson. aye. mr. mendez. no. mr. carper. aye. mr. cardin. aye. mr. brown. no. mr. bennett. aye. mr. casey. no. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. aye. chairman votes aye. >> report. >> 20 ayes six nays. >> the ayes have it and the resolution is ordered reported. ask consent the staff be granted authority to make technical, conforming and budgetary changes to all the bills reported today and without objection, it is so ordered. before we adjourn, if i could have order. if i could have order. i want to thank all of my colleagues for their participation today. and i especially want to thank senator wyden for his efforts throughout this process. we've worked very closely together and i've really appreciated it. as we noted today was a long time coming and i want to give credit for senator wyden for his leadership and willingness to reach across the aisle on these important issues. while the day didn't go off as well as i planned it we got a go

mr. fortenberry: thank you mr. speaker. first, mr. speaker, let me thank the distinguished gentleman from utah, mr. bishop, the chairman of the house committee on natural resources and the distinguished gentleman from arizona as well, mr. grijalva, who is the ranking member, as well as the gentleman from california mr. mcclintock, the chairman of the federal land subcommittee and the distinguished gentlewoman from massachusetts, ms. tsongas the ranking member of the committee, for their outstanding work and help to me in bringing this legislation to the floor. this is important. this legislation directs the secretary of the interior to conduct a feasibility study for the chief standing bear national historic frail. now, chief standing bear holds a very special place in native american and the history of our country. establishing a trail in his name would be an outstanding way to recognize his contributions to our great land. i'd like to provide some additional background on this extraordinary individual who prevailed in one of the most

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: mr. president i as some know, fought a little bit -- i was in the minor minor leagues for a couple years ago. in nevada saturday night in las vegas there is going to be a stunning athletic event one of the most significant athletic veangtszs actually in the last 50 years. it's a wonderful owequation for nevada to be hosting that fight between congressman pacqio and floyd mayweather. they will be battling out for three separate titles, fighting at the 147-pound weight class. for all the people that think that's small that's the class that we've had some of our great fighters of all time that have fought that same weight level. these are two great athletes. the winner of the match will be crowned as the greatest pound-per-pound fighter in the world. and they will go down as two of the finest fighters ever in the history of the world. so regardless of who wins, this bout is projected to shatter boxing records for not only it being a significant boxing match -- people all over the world will b

mr. chaffetz: what was it before, mr. horowitz? mr. owitz: there was no objection from the fbi as to fair credit reporting act, grand jury information. we got that material in fact in a 1998 and 1999 proceedings in district court in oklahoma. the department itself took the position that we were entitled to grand jury material, and two federal judges agreed. this has all changed since 2010, with no change in the law. the only thing frankly that occurred was, several hard-hitting reviews about how the fbi was handling some of its national security charges. other than that, nothing changed in 2010. mr. perkins: we have hundreds of people working there in the department of justice intended to be the fair arbiters who can get in and look under the hood and see and ferret out these problems. quite frankly, the reason the dea and the fbi are here today we have cited several times that atf and marshall's, this is not a problem. it's not an issue. they have problems within their agency, don't get me wrong. they have things they have to clean up,

mr. neugebauer: yeah, mr. speaker, it's my honor to yield to the gentleman from illinois, mr. dold, the primary author of this bill, who worked tirelessly in this area. i yield him as much time as he might consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. dold: thank you, mr. speaker. i certainly want to thank the chairman for his leadership. i want to thank my good friend from massachusetts. i also want to -- also comment on the fact that we're delighted that you're a libertarian on some of these things. as we look, mr. speaker, of h.r. 1480, the safe act, and confidentiality and privileged enhancement act it preserves the ability of the state and federal financial regulators to share information regarding consumer financial service businesses that are licensed at the state in the national mortgage licensing system. without losing the privilege and confidentiality protections provided by state and federal law. this is a bipartisan bill that promotes smart and efficient regulation among state regulators. it ensures that state regulators can talk t

mr. welch, mr. latta, mr. kramer, and mr. doyle. this section establishes a separate energy efficiency standard for grid enabled water heaters which are used in utility and thermal storage programs. finally madam speaker, title 3 of this bill, the energy information for commercial buildings bill which was introduced into the congress by my friend and colleague ms. castor of florida requires federal lease buildings without energy star labels to benchmark and disclose their energy usage data in most cases. it also requires the department of energy to complete a study of best practices for and impact of one state and local performance benchmarking and disclosure policies for commercial and multifamily buildings and two, utility policies for providing aggregated information to owners of multitenant buildings to assist with benchmarking programs. in addition, madam speaker, the d.o.e. is required to maintain a database to store and make available public energy related information on commercial and multifamily buildings. madam speaker, in

mr. swalwell, for 30 minutes. mr. swalwell: mr. swalwell: mr. speaker i rise this evening to report back to the congress on the progress of the house democratic caucus' group future forum. it is made up of 14 members of congress who are going across the country to talk about issues facing young americans. we launched just last thursday. we've gone to new york boston and san francisco and we're just warming up. our goal is to listen to not talk to, young americans about issues arranging from student loan debts, climate change, access toship and anything on their mind or standing in their way in achieving their dreams, hopes and aspirations. i encourage anyone watching tonight across america to tweet at me and to tweet at us so we can address your concerns here on the house floor and across the country. we started thursday evening in new york city. i was joined by democratic policy and communications chair steve israel congresswoman grace meng, who represents the queens area and congressman seth moulton. our first stop was at district co-work space

mr. sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: mr. president i ask to speak in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: mr. president i rise in strong opposition to the fast-track bill that the finance committee approved last night that will be on the floor, i think, here next week or the following week on the trans-pacific partnership. the most important aspect, i think, of this debate is that what we are discussing with the t.p.p. is not a new concept. it's not like somebody came up and said i got a great idea. let's try this trade agreement and it's going to be really good for the american worker, the american middle class and the american people. the truth of the matter is that we have seen this movie time and time and time again. and let me tell you that the ending of this movie is not very good. it's a pretty bad ending, and i think most americans understand that our past trade agreements h

mr. trumka, mr. donahue, good to see you both. mr. trumka, a lot of people accuse you and me of being against trade and protectionist and being stuck in the last century or even the one before the last century. did a.f.l. oppose this from the beginning? mr. trumka: we engaged almost five years ago, we submitted dozens and dozens, a couple hundred suggested language changes to make the agreement better. we did and still want to be able to support t.p.p., but in its current standards, it falls far short. senator brown: you could see from the amendments a number of us will offer, there will be a lot of them, mr. chairman, as you may have heard by now, that we will be offering on thursday, or wednesday, i guess, you could see that this trade agreement, the t.p.a. and t.p.p. could be improved significantly if -- if you would take two or three ideas that you have tried to constructively engage u.s.t.r. or the staff of this committee in to give me just some ideas of where we could do much better than we are doing on this. mr. trumka: with reg

mr. shane smith, mrs. tamika smith. ♪ >> the honorable conrad kennedy and edwin schlossberg. mr. nicholas and mr.ichael propetus. [ inaudible ]